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: November 2011
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African Diasporas: Afro-German Literature in the Context of the African American Experience Lit Verlag 2006 144 pages ISBN: 3-8258-9612-9 Aija Poikane-Daumke This book investigates the development of Afro-German literature in the context of the African American experience and shows the decisive role of literature for the emergence of the Afro-German Movement. Various Afro-German literary and…
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“Free People of Color” in Old Virginia: The Morris Family of Gloucester County, a Case Study Renegade South: histories of unconventional southerners 2011-11-10 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Back in 1977, when I was a junior in college, history became a personal venture for me when an African…
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Playwright discusses biracialism The Dartmouth 2006-01-18 Ashley Zuzek, The Dartmouth Staff William S. Yellow Robe, Jr., author of the play “Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers,” discussed the psychology of racial duality during a Tuesday night discussion at the Hopkins Center and emphasized the need for Americans of mixed blood to identify with a single race…
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Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers and Other Untold Stories UCLA American Indian Studies Center 2009 375 pages 10-digit ISBN: 0-935626-59-X 13-digit ISBN: 978-0-935626-59-9 William S. Yellow Robe Jr., Playwright, Director, Poet, Actor, Writer, and Educator Edited by: Margo Lukens, Associate Professor of English University of Maine Five Plays by William S. Yellow Robe Jr. This…
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The Monacan Indian Nation of Virginia: The Drums of Life University of Alabama Press 2008 248 pages Quality Paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-5488-6 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8173-1615-0 E Book ISBN: 978-0-8173-8113-4 Rosemary Clark Whitlock, Monacan Indian and Independent Scholar The contemporary Monacan Nation had approximately 1,400 registered members in 2006, mostly living in and around Lynchburg, Virginia,…
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White and mixed-race youths rank high in alcohol, substance abuse Los Angeles Times 2011-11-07 Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times/For the Booster Shots blog The first-ever survey of adolescent alcohol and drug abuse to recognize youths of mixed race or ethnicity has found that such kids hover closest to white adolescents in the rate at which…
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Race, Reproduction and Family Romance in Moreau de Saint-Mery’s Description. ..de la partie francaise de l’isle Saint Domingue Eighteenth-Century Studies Volume 38, Number 2, Winter 2005 pages 227-246 DOI: 10.1353/ecs.2005.0008 Doris Lorraine Garraway, Associate Professor of French Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois This paper analyzes the colonial jurist and historian Moreau de Saint-Méry’s racial classification system…
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The two studies reported here show that mixed-race individuals in the United States who identify as biracial or multiracial can encounter difficulty in asserting their identities, and that such constraints can lead to negative psychological consequences. In Study 1 we found that when discussing instances in which their biracial or multiracial identity caused them to…
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The French colonial question and the disintegration of white supremacy in the Colony of Saint Domingue, 1789-1792 The University of North Carolina, Wilmington 2005 94 pages Molly M. Herrmann A Thesis Submitted to the University of North Carolina Wilmington in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts This thesis argues…
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Her sole vocation is to bewitch the senses, deliver them to the most delicious ecstasies, enrapture them with the most seductive temptations…