Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Day: November 20, 2009
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Constructing “Race” and “Ethnicity” in America: Category-Making in Public Policy and Administration M. E. Sharpe November 2002 272 pages Tables, figures, references, index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-7656-0800-0 Paper ISBN: 978-0-7656-0801-7 Dvora Yanow, Professor of Public Affairs & Administration California State University, East Bay 2004 Best Book Award, Section on Public Administration Research, American Society for Public…
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The search for a Metis identity and what constitutes that identity is a key issue facing many Aboriginals of mixed ancestry today. “The People Who Own Themselves” reconstructs 250 years of the Desjarlais’ family history across a substantial area of North America, from colonial Louisiana, the St. Louis, Missouri region, and the American Southwest to…
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A Place to Be Someone: Growing Up with Charles Gordone Texas Tech University Press September 2008 272 pages 35 B/W photos Cloth ISBN: 978-0-89672-635-2 Shirley Gordon Jackson with introduction by Maceo C. Dailey, Jr., Professor of African American Studies University of Texas El Paso The enlightening memoir of one multiethnic family’s struggles and triumphs. Before…