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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Month: March 2011
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African Americans began to migrate from black to white as soon as slaves arrived on American shores. In seventeenth-century Virginia, social distinctions such as class and race were fluid, but the consequences of being black or white were enormous. It often meant the difference between slavery and freedom, poverty and prosperity, persecution and power. Even…
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“Abominable Mixture”: Toward the Repudiation of Anglo-Indian Intermarriage in Seventeenth-Century Virginia The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Volume 95, Number 2 (April, 1987) pages 157-192 David D. Smits, Professor of History The College of New Jersey Students of Amerindian-white relations have long ascribed to the English colonists an aversion to race mixing, especially through…
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I do not believe that any Mulatto race can be maintained beyond the third or fourth generation by Mulattos merely; they must intermarry with the pure races or perish. Robert Knox, The Races of Men, London, 1850.
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On the Phenomena of Hybridity in the Genus Homo Published for the Anthropological Society, by Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts (London) 1864 144 pages Scan Date/Time: 2007-12-04 21:43:57 Dr. Paul Broca 1824-1880, Secretary General Anthropological Society of Paris (Also Honorary Fellow, Anthropological Society of London) Edited by C. Carter Blake, F.G.S., F.A.S.L, Honorary Secretary, Antrhopological…
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Segregated Miscegenation: On the Treatment of Racial Hybridity in the North American and Latin American Literary Traditions Routledge 2003-02-28 Pages: 144 Trim Size: 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-94349-9 Carlos Hiraldo, Professor of English LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York Through the comparative study of literatures from the United States and Latin America,…
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Brackish Bayou Blood: Weaving Mixed-Blood Indian-Creole Identity Outside the Written Record American Indian Culture and Research Journal Volume 32, Number 2 (2008) Special Issue: Indigenous Locations Post-Katrina: Beyond Invisibility and Disaster Online Date: 2008-08-22 pages 93-108 ISSN: 0161-6463 L. Rain Cranford-Gomez As a child on the Gulf of Mexico, evacuation to higher ground for floods,…
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The Melungeons: A Mixed-Blood Strain of the Southern Appalachians Geographical Review Volume 41, Number 2 (April, 1951) pages 256-271 Edward T. Price, Professor Emeritus of Geography University of Oregon In the native vocabulary of East Tennessee and adjacent parts of neighboring states the word “Melungeon” is widely used. To some people it is only a…