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: June 2011
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Drôle de Félix : A Search for Cultural Identity on the Road Wide Screen Volume 3, Number 1 (2011) ISSN: 1757-3920 Zélie Asava With the emergence of la culture beur in the 1980s—and the birth of a new type of filmmaking influenced by postcolonial politics, world cinema, the new hood films of the African-American community…
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family [Review] The Journal of American History Volume 98, Issue 1 (2011) Pages 154-155 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jar004 Brenda E. Stevenson, Professor of History University of California, Los Angeles The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. By Annette Gordon-Reed. (New York: Norton, 2008. 802 pp. Cloth, ISBN 978-0-393-06477-3. Paper, ISBN 978-0-393-33776-1.)…
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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy University of Virginia Press 1998 305 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8139-1833-4 Annette Gordon-Reed, Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History; Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of History Harvard University When Annette Gordon-Reed’s groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas…
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The Hidden History of Mestizo America The Journal of American History Volume 82, Number 3 (December, 1995) pages 941-964 5 illustrations Gary B. Nash, Professor Emeritus of History University of California, Los Angeles This essay was delivered as the presidential address at the national meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Washington, March 31,…
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In this groundbreaking study, Thomas Ingersoll argues the Jacksonian American Indian removal policy appealed to popular racial prejudice against all Indians, including special suspicion of mixed bloods. Lawmakers also perceived a threat to white Americans’ transatlantic reputation posed by the potential for general racial mixture, or “amalgamation.”
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Racial mixture, racial passing, and white subjectivity in Absalom, Absalom! The Faulkner Journal Volume 23, Issue 2 (Spring 2008) pages 3-22 Masami Sugimori, Instructor of English University of South Alabama In his 1987 study of the critical reception of Absalom, Absalom! Bernd Engler points out that “since the mid-Seventies the only interpretations to gain favour…
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Les Cenelles Centenary College of Louisiana Press / Editions Tintamarre January 2003 208 pages ISBN: 0-9723258-9-1 Armand Lanusse The text is in French. With few exceptions, the poets of Les Cenelles–the very first collection of poetry by Creoles of color–do not directly address their precarious situation in a South that was ever increasingly hostile to…
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Racial Identity Development and Psychological Adjustment in Biracial Individuals of Minority/Minority Racial Group Descent Marquette University Spring 2011 Kizzie Paule Walker A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Psychology in partial fulfillment of the requirments for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Based on the theoretical framework of symbolic interactionism and race as a social…
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Shades of gray: Black-white multiracialism in contemporary American literature York University (Canada) 2011 294 pages Publication Number: AAT NR71345 ISBN: 9780494713457 Molly Littlewood McKibbin A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies in English in partial fulfillment of the requirments for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy The American construction of whiteness and blackness…