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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Categorization of racial/ethnic identity for racialized and marginalized biracials in the mainland United States California State University, Sacramento Spring 2009 169 pages Estrella Valdez THESIS Submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS in SPECIAL MAJOR (Ethnic Studies) There is no singular agreed-upon understanding of what it means to…
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Nharas and Morenas Horras: A Luso-African Model for the Social History of the Spanish Caribbean, c. 1570-1640 Journal of Early Modern History Volume 14, Issue 1 (2010) pages 119-150 DOI: 10.1163/138537810X12632734397061 David Wheat, Assistant Professor of History Michigan State University Drawing on little-used archival materials held in Seville’s Archive of the Indies and ecclesiastical records from…
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City’s black founding father Decator Daily Decatur, Alabama 2010-04-19 Deangelo McDaniel, Staff Writer Minister, historian reconstructing life of ex-slave who became successful farmer First in a two-part series The Rev. Wylheme Ragland would like to spend one day with Robert Murphy. So would local historian Peggy Allen Towns. “Just one day,” Ragland said emphatically. “Just…
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“Our Ancestors came from many Bloods”. Gendered Narrations of a Hybrid Nation Lusotopie Volume 12, Issue 1 (2005) pages 217-232 DOI: 10.1163/176830805774719728 Isabel P.B. Fêo Rodrigues, Professor of Anthropology University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Narratives of mixed ancestry in Cape Verde use gender as common denominator in the weaving of a Creole nation. These narratives may…
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A Tangled Text: William Wells Brown’s Clotel (1853, 1860, 1864, 1867) Wesleyan University April 2009 104 pages Samantha Marie Sommers A thesis submitted to the faculty of Wesleyan University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts with Departmental Honors in English and the American Studies Program Table of Contents…
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Black Czech writer Zmeškal won EU Prize for Literature in 2011 Afro-Europe 2012-04-08 Czech writer Tomáš Zmeškal, who was born as the son of a Congolese father and a Czech mother in Prague, won the European Union Prize for Literature in 2011 for his debut novel “Love Letter in Cuneiform Script” (Milostný Dopis Klínovým Písmem)…
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Mixed race hegemony, I argue, is the assertion by neoliberals, ethnocentric nationalists, and by some mixed race people themselves that biracial and multiracial individuals and families will lead to the end of a race-conscious and racially-discriminatory society in the United States.