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 2014
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Based on ethnographic research in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, the contributors to “Mestizo Genomics” explore how the concepts of race, ethnicity, nation, and gender enter into and are affected by genomic research.
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The Colonel’s Dream West Virginia University Press October 2014 (originally published in 1905) 352 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-935978-91-6 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-940425-23-8 ePub ISBN: 978-1-935978-93-0 PDF ISBN: 978-1-935978-92-3 Charles W. Chesnutt Edited by: R. J. Ellis, Professor of American Studies University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an African American writer, essayist, Civil…
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A rare glimpse into the thoughts and experiences of a free black American woman in the nineteenth century
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Historically Black: Imagining Community in a Black Historic District New York University Press July 2014 208 pages 10 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9780814762882 Paper ISBN: 9780814763483 Mieka Brand Polanco, Assistant Professor of Anthropology James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia In Historically Black, Mieka Brand Polanco examines the concept of community in the United States: how communities are…
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Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry tells the story of this couple and the case that forever changed the law of race and marriage in America.
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‘A Chosen Exile,’ by Allyson Hobbs: review San Francisco Chronicle 2014-11-01 Imani Perry, Professor, Center for African American Studies Princeton University Allyson Hobbs, A Chosen Exile: History of Racial Passing in American Life (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014) Family across the color line: It is now a popular enough theme that it qualifies as a…