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 23, 2009
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What Answer? Prometheus Books Originally Published in 1868 316 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-59102-050-9 Anna E. Dickinson With an Introduction by J. Matthew Gallman, Professor of History University of Florida This first and only novel by Anna E. Dickinson, a well-known 19th-century orator, abolitionist, and advocate of racial equality and women’s rights, attracted tremendous interest when…
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Bayou Folk Prometheus Books Originally Published by Houghton Mifflin in 1894 Pages: 286 Paperback ISBN: 1-57392-975-1 Kate Chopin The author who today is probably best known for her novel The Awakening initially established her literary reputation with short stories about life in rural Louisiana during the late nineteenth century. Born Katherine O’Flaherty in St. Louis,…
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On a May morning in 1939, eighteen-year-old Velma Demerson and her lover were having breakfast when two police officers arrived to take her away. Her crime was loving a Chinese man, a “crime” that was compounded by her pregnancy and subsequent mixed-race child.