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: December 2011
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“Miss Eurafrica”: Men, Women’s Sexuality, and Métis Identity in Late Colonial French Africa, 1945-1960 Journal of the History of Sexuality Volume 20, Number 3, September 2011 pages 568-593 Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Assistant Professor of African History University of Chicago The 1960 issue of the magazine L’Eurafricain (The Eurafrican) featured a cover photo of a woman announced…
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Color Differentiation in the American Systems of Slavery The Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 3, Number 3 (Winter, 1973) pages 509-541 Donald L. Horowitz, James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science Duke University In the comparative study of race relations, the evolution of group identity constitutes a central process. Although group boundaries tend…
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Her “Nig”: Returning the Gaze of Nella Larsen’s “Passing” Modern Language Studies Volume 32, Number 2 (Autumn, 2002) pages 109-138 Lori Harrison-Kahan, Full-time Adjunct Faculty in English Boston College In a scene from Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel, Passing, a white man, John Bellew, enters his Chicago hotel room to find his wife, Clare, taking tea…
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Power, Perception, and Interracial Sex: Former Slaves Recall a Multiracial South The Journal of Southern History Volume 71, Number 3 (August, 2005) pages 559-588 Fay A. Yarbrough, Associate Professor of History University of Oklahoma My father’s name wuz Robert Stewart. He wuz a white man. My mother wuz named Ann. She wuz part Indian. Her…
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A Pedigree Study of Amerindian Crosses in Canada The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Volume 58, (July – December, 1928) pages 511-532 R. Ruggles Gates Department of Anthropology Harvard University This paper is an attempt to apply genetical methods to the study of inter-racial crossing. In the anthropological studies…