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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Day: November 9, 2014
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Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean: Irish, Africans, and the Construction of Difference University of Georgia Press 2013-11-15 256 pages 18 b&w photos, 1 map Trim size: 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-4505-5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-4662-5 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-4634-2 Jenny Shaw, Assistant Professor of History University of Alabama A new examination of the experiences…
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241F Performances of Passing, Performances of Resistance Hamilton College, Clinton, New York Spring 2014 Yumi Pak, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies An examination of the historical practice of passing in the United States. While the practice has most commonly referred to the history of racial passing for light-skinned African Americans in the early…
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The life of a groundbreaking librarian and Harlem Renaissance figure
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In “The Mulatto Republic,” April Mayes looks at the many ways Dominicans define themselves through race, skin color, and culture. She explores significant historical factors and events that have led the nation, for much of the twentieth century, to favor privileged European ancestry and Hispanic cultural norms such as the Spanish language and Catholicism.
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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…