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: April 2012
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Social Construction of Ethnicity Versus Personal Experience: The Case of Afro-Amerasians Journal of Comparative Family Studies Volume 29, Issue 2 (Summer 1998) pages 255-267 Teresa Kay Williams Michael C. Thornton, Professor of Afro-American Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison The article focuses on the existence of ethnic group differences in the U.S. and how the subgroup…
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Just Finished Reading: Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South Random Thoughts on History: My musings on American, African American, Southern, Civil War, Reconstruction, and Public History topics and books. 2012-04-17 Tim Talbott Frankfort, Kentucky The practice of slavery created many complications. Not the least of these were the children produced by relationships…
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The Winton Triangle The State of Things WUNC 91.5 North Carolina Public Radio 2011-06-17 Frank Stasio, Host Susan Davis, Senior Producer Marvin Jones, Historian Chowan Discovery Group More Americans marked at least two boxes for “race” on the 2010 Census than ever before. The country may not be increasingly multiracial but it certainly is increasingly…
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Norbert Rillieux and a Revolution in Sugar Processing American Chemical Society National Historic Chemical Landmarks: Norbert Rillieux and a Revolution in Sugar Processing 2002 Judah Ginsberg Portrait of Norbert Rillieux (undated). Dedicated April 18, 2002 at Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana Norbert Rillieux: Chemist and Engineer The birth record on file in New Orleans…
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Blue Coat or Powdered Wig: Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue University of Georgia Press March 2001 344 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-3029-7 Stewart R. King, Associate Professor of History Mount Angel Seminary, St. Benedict, Oregon By the late 1700s, half the free population of Saint Domingue was black. The French…
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Racial and ethnic self-identification have economic consequences because the choice of self-identity is likely to be entwined with the acceptance of and acculturation into dominant social norms. If race or ethnicity is endogenous in certain circumstances, a self-identity may or may not be selected to distance oneself from a subordinate group or to improve one’s…
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Ownership, Entrepreneurship, and Identity: The Gens de Couleur Libres and the Architecture of Antebellum New Orleans, 1830-1850 Graham Foundation Chicago, Illinois 2011 The recipient of the 2011 Carter Manny Award for doctoral dissertation writing is Tara Dudley, The University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture This dissertation examines the architectural activities of New…