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: November 2012
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The Life and Writings of Betsey Chamberlain: Native American Mill Worker (review) Studies in American Indian Literatures Volume 24, Number 3, Fall 2012 pages 138-141 DOI: 10.1353/ail.2012.0035 Margaret M. Bruchac By reconstructing the life history of Betsey Guppy Chamberlain (1797–1866), historian and librarian Judith Ranta has done some fine detective work that illuminates an otherwise…
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The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940. [González Review] H-Net Reviews February, 2012 Fredy González Yale University Robert Chao Romero. The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2010. xii + 254 pp., ISBN 978-0-8165-2772-4. Moving across the Transnational Commercial Orbit Robert Chao Romero’s The Chinese in Mexico, the first English-language monograph on the subject,…
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Essence and the Mulatto Traveler: Europe as Embodiment in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand The Journal of Transnational American Studies Volume 4, Number 1 (2012) 15 pages Jeffrey H. Gray, Professor of English Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey Originally published as Jeffrey Gray, “Essence and the Mulatto Traveler: Europe as Embodiment in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand,”…
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Rosa Mahier’s Freedom: Identity and the Maintenance of Liberty in Antebellum Louisiana 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 Saturday, 2013-01-05: 14:50 CST (Local Time) Chamber Ballroom I (Roosevelt New Orleans) Paper in AHA Session 220: Manipulating Freedom: Liberty, Enslavement, and the Quest for Power in the Southwestern…
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Chinese-Mexicans celebrate repatriation to Mexico Silicon Valley Mercury News 2012-11-24 Olga R. Rodriguez, Mexican Correspondent Associated Press MEXICO CITY—Juan Chiu Trujillo was 5 years old when he left his native Mexico for a visit to his father’s hometown in southern China. He was 35 when he returned. As Chiu vacationed with his parents, brother and…
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Donas, Signares, and Free Women of Color: African and Eurafrican Women of the Atlantic World in an Age of Racial Slavery 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 153 Saturday, 2013-01-05: 09:00-11:00 CST (Local Time) Chamber Ballroom II (Roosevelt New Orleans) Chair: Hilary Jones, University of…
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“…It’s kind of like living in a shadow. It sounds funny, but that’s what it feels like. I want to be able to walk and say: ‘Hey, This is who I am. This is what I am. This ain’t what you want me to be. This ain’t what I’m thinking to be. This is me.’……
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Black Faces, White Deeds: The Miracles of Ancient Ethiopian Saints in the Early Modern Catholic Atlantic 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 Thursday, 2013-01-03: 16:10 CST (Local Time) Preservation Hall, Studio 3 (New Orleans Marriott) From Session AHA Session 31: Saintly Translations: Stories about Saints across Time…