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: October 2020
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“Growing up in New Orleans,” you told me later, “it would be impossible to see race as anything but socially constructed. But that doesn’t mean it’s not real.”
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Yet, in recounting the events which led up to the couple’s triumphant victory of love over hate, the storyline in these accounts follows the popular narrative of the Loving story. But there is more to this case than many have supposed. This article highlights a few unknown facts and debunks some myths about this historic…
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With Philip J. Hirschkop, he brought Loving v. Virginia to the Supreme Court, which struck down laws against interracial marriages.
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PEOPLE’s Voices from the Fight Against Racism will amplify Black perspectives on the push for equality and justice
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David and Jessica Figari are navigating racial and political divides in their country — and in their family — that they never anticipated when they fell in love
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That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing University of North Carolina Press October 2020 242 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 10 halftones, 1 fig Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-5957-2 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-5956-5 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-5958-9 Julia S. Charles, Assistant Professor of English Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama In this study of racial passing literature, Julia S.…
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In this book, A. B. Wilkinson complicates that history by investigating how people of mixed African, European, and Native American heritage—commonly referred to as “Mulattoes,” “Mustees,” and “mixed bloods”—were integral to the construction of colonial racial ideologies.