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: July 2012
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Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier University of Nebraska Press 2005 202 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-2016-4 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-6841-8 Andrew K. Frank, Allen Morris Associate Professor of History Florida Atlantic University Creeks and Southerners examines the families created by the hundreds of intermarriages between Creek Indian women and European American men in…
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“A name creates life patterns,” Allison Adelle Hedge Coke writes, “which form and shape a life; my life, like my name, must have been formed many times over then handed to me to realize.” “Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer” is Hedge Coke’s narrative of that realization, the award-winning poet and writer’s searching account of her life…
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‘Yo, Jose Dupard, Pardo Libre Natural Y Vecino De Esta Ciudad’: Masculinity, Race and Respectability in Spanish New Orleans/Jose Dupard, A Free Man of Color in Spanish New Orleans Ìrìnkèrindò: A Journal of African Migration Issue 5 (December 2011) 31 pages Megan Kareithi, ABD History Tulane University, Louisiana This paper explores the methods free men of…
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William W. Warren: The Life, Letters, and Times of an Ojibwe Leader University of Nebraska Press 2007 212 pages 9 photographs, 2 maps, figure, index, 2 appendixes Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-4327-9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-2498-8 Theresa M. Schenck, Associate Professor of Life Sciences Communications and American Indian Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison This is the first full-length…
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Miscegenation, a story of racial intimacy! African American Registry 2012-07-20 On this date, the African American Registry discusses miscegantion. Reference: The Encyclopedia of African-American Heritage Susan Altman Shortly before Christmas in 1863 a 72-page pamphlet appeared for sale on newsstands in New York City. It was titled “Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the…
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Equality Trouble: Sameness and Difference in Twentieth-Century Race Law California Law Review Volume 88, Issue 6 (2000) pages 1923-2015 Angela P. Harris, Professor of Law University of California, Davis In this Essay, Professor Harris suggests that “race law” consists not only of antidiscrimination law, but law pertaining to the formation, recognition, and maintenance of racial…
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Administering Identity: The Determination of Race in Race-Conscious Law California Law Review Volume 82, Issue 5 (1994) pages 1231-1285 Christopher A. Ford Modern American anti-discrimination law seeks to remedy the effects of racial and ethnic prejudice by ensuring equality in areas such as political access and employment opportunity. In this effort, the concept of race…
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The Policing of Race Mixing: The Place of Biopower within the History of Racisms Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Volume 7, Number 2 (2010) pages 205-216 DOI: 10.1007/s11673-010-9224-8 Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies Pennsylvania State University In this paper I investigate a largely untold chapter in the history of…
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U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey coming to campus East Carolina University Greenville, North Carolina 2012-10-24 through 2012-10-25 United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey will be on campus Oct. 24-25 as part of the Contemporary Writers Series. A native of Gulfport, Miss., Trethewey was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2006. She is professor of…