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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The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880–1930; and Spectacular Wickedness: Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville, New Orleans [Smithers Review] The Journal of American History Volume 100, Issue 4 (March 2014) pages 1222-1224 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jau065 Gregory D. Smithers, Associate Professor of History Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia Jolie A.…
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New Orleans After the Civil War: Race, Politics, and a New Birth of Freedom by Justin A. Nystrom (review) Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Volume 111, Number 4, Autumn 2013 pages 617-619 DOI: 10.1353/khs.2014.0023 Aaron Astor, Associate professor of History Maryville College, Maryville, Tennessee Nystrom, Justin A., New Orleans after the Civil War: Race,…
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We often think of Reconstruction as an unfinished revolution. Justin A. Nystrom’s original study of the aftermath of emancipation in New Orleans takes a different perspective, arguing that the politics of the era were less of a binary struggle over political supremacy and morality than they were about a quest for stability in a world…
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In 2007, Joseph Boyden, author of the bestselling novel Three Day Road and 2008 Giller Prize winner for Through Black Spruce, was invited by the Canadian Literature Centre | Centre de littérature canadienne to deliver the inaugural Henry Kreisel Lecture at the University of Alberta.
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A Daughter Discovers Branches of the Family Tree Pruned by Her Father The New York Times 2007-11-07 Mimi Read NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 6 — In a white-box living room in an apartment on lower St. Charles Avenue here, the dining table was set for a family party: plastic bowls of chips, dip and salsa; a…
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As part of a new collaboration with the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, NolaVie will spotlight entries from KnowLA.org—the Digital Encyclopedia of Louisiana, including unique events and people in our state’s history. This month, we commemorate the end of Storyville. On November 12th, 1917, Mayor Martin Behrman acquiesced to pressure from the US Navy and…
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The Rise and Demise of the Gens De Couleur Libre Artists in Antebellum New Orleans University of Florida 2012 173 pages Karen Burt Coker A THESIS PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS The gens de couleur libres of…
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As an American, I follow my roots like trails across the globe. My mother is from Kansas and is of German descent, and my deceased father was black with roots in North Carolina, and before then, Africa. Arguably you can trace all of us back to Africa. But my parents’ union created me: a black…
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The Reading Life: Authors Emily Clark, Bill Loehfelm And Dennis Formento The Reading Life WWNO 89.9FM University of New Orleans 2013-04-23 Susan Larson, Host Emily Clark, Clement Chambers Benenson Professor of American Colonial History; Associate Professor of History Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Emily Clark This week on The Reading Life, Susan talks with Tulane…
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Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a “quadroon,” she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical imagination by the linked sins of slavery and interracial sex. However, as Emily Clark shows, the rich…