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: February 2013
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“Sometimes when I am on the bus people will look at me and if they think that I am not Korean they will not sit next to me or they will move when I sit down. This kind of thing is still existent. Also, it can be difficult to get people to stop speaking English…
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The Trend of the Race: A Study of Present Tendencies in the Biological Development of Civilized Mankind Harcourt, Brace and Company 1921 396 pages (Digitized by Google) Samuel J. Holmes (1868-1964), Ph.D., Professor of Zoology University of California, Berkeley CONTENTS I. An Introductory Orientation II. The Hereditary Basis III. The Inheritance of Mental Defects and…
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In this collection of poetry, prose, and personal essay, both new and well-known women authors of mixed race ancestry examine history, culture, and identity using insight from the female psyche.
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Me: A Book of Remembrance University Press of Mississippi 1997 (Originally published in 1915) 368 pages Cloth ISBN: 0878059911 (9780878059911) Paper ISBN: 087805992X (9780878059928) Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954) Afterword by: Linda Trinh Moser, Professor of English Missouri State University A Chinese-Eurasian’s autobiographical novel tracing a woman’s dual quest for a writing career and romance Ironically, Winnifred…
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Edward Ball tells the story of southern slavery through tracking the history of the Balls, prominent landowners, rice-planters, one or two of them slave traders, and big slave owners in a southern family in dispersal and decline.
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Namako: Sea Cucumber Coffee House Press September 1998 256 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 1566890756; ISBN-13: 978-1566890755 Linda Watanabe McFerrin “McFerrin’s first novel paints a portrait of a truly multicultural family—a Scottish father, a half-British and half-Japanese mother, and four children… McFerrin’s writing is thoughtful and smooth as she captures ever-changing images of the world around Ellen…
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Oysters made Hampton man wealthy Daily Press Newport News, Virginia 2013-02-17 Mark St. John Erickson, Columnist Even before the Civil War, Hampton’s busy waterfront boasted many free blacks who made their living as pilots, fishermen and boatmen. Living side by side with whites who worked in the same maritime trades, they included such figures as…