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: April 25, 2011
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NHUM3031 Passing: (Re)Constructing Identity The New School Fall 2009 Tracyann Williams, Instructor Passing: (Re)Constructing Identity: “Passing,” a term traditionally used to describe fair-skinned Blacks posing as whites, is, in fact, part of a broader cultural phenomenon that has its origins in the pursuit of “the American Dream.” For the sake of economic comforts, racially, ethnically,…
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“A Being of a New World:” The Ambiguity of Mixed Blood in Pauline Johnson’s “My Mother” MELUS Volume 27, Number 3, Native American Literature (Autumn, 2002) pages 43-56 Margo Lukens, Associate Professor of English University of Maine Studying mixed-blood/Métis history reveals that an overwhelming number of unions between Europeans and Native people happened between a…
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Note on the Skin-Colour of the Crosses Between Negro and White Biometrika Volume 6, Number 4 (March 1909) pages 348-353 DOI: 10.1093/biomet/6.4.348 Karl Pearson (1857-1936), F.R.S. Those who feel compelled at present to hold their final judgment with regard to Mendelism in suspense, who do not think the statistical proof of its generality by any…
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The Slave Trader, the White Slave, and the Politics of Racial Determination in the 1850s Journal of American History Volume 87, Issue 1 (June 2000) pages 43-56 DOI: 10.2307/2567914 Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University In January of 1857 Jane Morrison was sold in the…
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“Quadroon” Balls in the Spanish Period Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association Volume 14, Number 3 (Summer, 1973) pages 310-315 Translated and Edited by Ronald R. Morazan, Assistant Professor of History Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana With the influx of free blacks into Spanish Louisiana from the island of Santo Domingo, the…
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Creole Angel: The Self-Identity of the Free People of Color of Antebellum New Orleans University of North Texas August 2006 136 pages Ben Melvin Hobratsch Thesis Prepared for the Degree of Masters of Arts, University of North Texas, August 2006 This thesis is about the self-identity of antebellum New Orleans’s free people of color. The…