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: August 2011
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Summer Blend Book Club Wraps Up Tell Me More National Public Radio 2011-08-25 Michel Martin, Host This series began in June with the help of Heidi Durrow, author and co-founder of the “Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival.” All summer long, Tell Me More has been covering books about the multicultural experience in America. Durrow…
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The Eastmans and the Luhans: Interracial Marriage between White Women and Native American Men, 1875-1935 Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 23, Number 3 (2002) pages 29-54 DOI: 10.1353/fro.2003.0009 Margaret D. Jacobs, Professor of History & Director, Women’s and Gender Studies University of Nebraska, Lincoln At a lavish wedding and reception in New York…
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Mixed-Bloods, Mestizas, and Pintos: Race, Gender, and Claims to Whiteness in Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s Who Would Have Thought It? Western American Literature Volume 36, Number 3 (Fall 2001) pages 212-231 Margaret D. Jacobs, Professor of History & Director, Women’s and Gender Studies University of Nebraska, Lincoln Since the…
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Racial Queer: Multiracial College Students at the Intersection of Identity, Education and Agency University of Texas, Austin May 2010 495 pages Aurora Chang-Ross A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas a Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University…
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AAS 310: Constructing and Negotiating Multiracial Identity University of Texas, Austin Center for Asian American Studies Fall 2008 This course serves as an introduction to the experiences of biracial and multiracial people, specifically with a focus on “mixed”/ hapa Asian American, African American and Latino people in the U.S., concentrating on theories of race, racial identity…
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The mulatta text and the muted voice in “Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon”: Revising the genre of the slave narrative Marquette University August 1995 202 pages Rebecca Anne Ferguson A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School, Marquette University, Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English From…
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Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: or Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life (Electronic Edition) Published by the Author 1861 60 pages Hiram Mattison, A.M. (1811-1868), Pastor Union Chapel, New York Read the entire novel here.
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Developing: Supreme Court vacates Freedmen ruling Cherokee Phoenix 2011-08-23 Christina Good Voice, Senior Reporter Tahlequah, Okla. – The Cherokee Nation Supreme Court issued a 16-page ruling Aug. 22 that reversed and vacated the decision of the CN District Court regarding the Cherokee Freedmen, stating that the Cherokee people had the right to amend the CN…