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: June 2012
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Re-searching Metis Identity: My Metis Family Story University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon April 2010 200 pages Tara Turner A Thesis Submitted to the College of Graduate Studies and Research in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Psychology This research explores Metis identity through the use of…
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The Family Jewell: A Metis History of San Juan Island and Puget Sound, by Dr. Katrina Jagodinsky San Juan Historical Museum 323 Price St. Friday Harbor, Washington Saturday, 2012-06-30, 18:00 PDT (Local Time) The history of Métis families (Native American and European ancestry) is like the mist that shrouds the San Juan Island chain: a…
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Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru University of Pittsburgh Press April 2012 272 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 9780822961932 Rachel Sarah O’Toole, Associate Professor of History University of California, Irvine Bound Lives chronicles the lived experience of race relations in northern coastal Peru during the colonial era. Rachel Sarah…
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The Shadow of the Octoroon in T. E. Brown’s Christmas Rose Victorian Poetry Volume 38, Number 2, Summer 2000 pages 289-298 DOI: 10.1353/vp.2000.0023 Max Keith Sutton In Impossible Purities, Jennifer Brody writes that the multiracial “woman of color” in Victorian literature “both conceals and reveals conflicting ideas of difference.” The light skin of an octoroon,…
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How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself The New York Times 2012-06-28 John Jeremiah Sullivan A poll of well over a hundred writers and critics, taken a few years back by Oxford American magazine, named William Faulkner’s “Absalom, Absalom!” the “greatest Southern novel ever written,” by a decisive margin —…
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Tales of the Old Indian Territory and Essays on the Indian Condition University of Nebraska Press 2012 680 pages ISBN: 978-0-8032-3792-6 John Milton Oskison (1874-1947) Edited and with an introduction by Lionel Larré, Associate Professor of English Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3 At the beginning of the twentieth century, Indian Territory, which would eventually…
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ENGL 326: Representations of Miscegenations Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut Spring 2010 The course examines the notion of miscegenation (interracial relations), including how the term was coined and defined. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we will consider the different and conflicting ways that interracial relations have been represented, historically and contemporaneously, as well as the implications of…
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Slippery Language and False Dilemmas: The Passing Novels of Child, Howells, and Harper American Literature Volume 75, Number 4, December 2003 pages 813-841 Julie Cary Nerad, Associate Professor of English Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Conceived in slavery, gestated in racialist science, and bred in Jim Crow segregation, the U.S. race system calcified into a…