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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Oscar James Dunn: A Case Study in Race & Politics in Reconstruction Louisiana University of New Orleans December 2011 296 pages Brian Mitchell A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of New Orleans in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Urban Studies The study of…
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A More Noble Cause: A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana Louisiana State University Press April 2011 328 pages 6 x 9 inches, 21 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780807137932 Alexander P. Tureaud, Jr. Rachel L. Emanuel Throughout the decades-long legal battle to end segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement, attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud was…
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Creole Is, Creole Ain’t: Diachronic and Synchronic Attitudes toward Creole Identity in Southern Louisiana Language in Society Volume 29, Number 2 (June, 2000) pages 237-258 Sylvie Dubois, Gabriel Muir Professor of French Studies Louisiana State University Megan Melançon, Associate Professor of English Georgia College Creole identity in Louisiana acquired diverse meanings for several ethnic groups…
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Rewriting of the past and paradigm of the feminine in “The Quadroons of New Orleans” by Sidonie de La Houssaye Pennsylvania State University 2008 231 pages Publication Number: AAT 3336040 ISBN: 9780549923022 Christian Hommel Les Quarteronnes de la Nouvelle-Orléans is a novel written by a Creole women of the white francophone aristocracy, and appeard as…
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Resistance, Silence, and Placées: Charles Bon’s Octoroon Mistress and Louisa Picquet American Literature Volume 79, Number 1 (March 2007) pages 85-112 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-2006-072 Stephanie Li, Assistant Professor of English University of Rochester In 1850, Mary Walker, a free woman of color, filed a petition in the Fourth District Court of New Orleans to enslave herself…
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One ‘Speck’ of Imperfection—Invisible blackness and the one-drop rule: An interdisciplinary approach to examining Plessy v. Ferguson and Jane Doe v. State of Louisiana Indiana University 2008 371 pages Publication Number: AAT 3315914 ISBN: 9780549675372 Erica Faye Cooper Submitted to the faculty of the University Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the…