Mixed Race Studies

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Day: February 9, 2010

  • Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century

    “Race and the Cherokee Nation” examines how leaders of the Cherokee Nation fostered a racial ideology through the regulation of interracial marriage. By defining and policing interracial sex, nineteenth-century Cherokee lawmakers preserved political sovereignty, delineated Cherokee identity, and established a social hierarchy.

  • Legislating Women’s Sexuality: Cherokee Marriage Laws in the Nineteenth Century

    Legislating Women’s Sexuality: Cherokee Marriage Laws in the Nineteenth Century Journal of Social History Volume 38, Number 2, Winter 2004 E-ISSN: 1527-1897 Print ISSN: 0022-4529 DOI: 10.1353/jsh.2004.0144 Fay A. Yarbrough, Associate Professor of History University of Oklahoma During the first half of the nineteenth century, the Cherokee Nation passed many laws to regulate marriage and…

  • The Rule of Racialization: Class, Identity, Governance

    The Rule of Racialization: Class, Identity, Governance Temple University Press November 2002 256 pages Cloth EAN: 978-1-56639-981-4, ISBN: 1-56639-981-5 Paper: EAN: 978-1-56639-982-1, ISBN: 1-56639-982-3 Steve Martinot, Adjunct Professor San Francisco State University A significant re-writing of the history of class formation in the US An important history of the way class formed in the US,…