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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Tag: University of Nebraska Press
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“Blood Will Tell” reveals the underlying centrality of “blood” that shaped official ideas about who was eligible to be defined as Indian by the General Allotment Act in the United States. Katherine Ellinghaus traces the idea of blood quantum and how the concept came to dominate Native identity and national status between 1887 and 1934…
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“Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780–1940, Revised Edition” is a sociohistorical tour de force that examines the entwined formation of racial theory and sexual constructs within settler colonialism in the United States and Australia from the Age of Revolution to the Great Depression.
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Surviving Twice is the story of five Vietnamese Amerasians born during the Vietnam War to American soldiers and Vietnamese mothers.
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Duncan McDonald: Flathead Indian Reservation Leader and Cultural Broker, 1849-1937 University of Nebraska Press 2016-03-31 256 pages 28 illustrations, 6 maps, index Paperback ISBN: 978-1-934594-15-5 Robert Bigart, Librarian Emeritus Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana Joseph McDonald, President Emeritus (and grandnephew of Duncan McDonald) Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana Duncan McDonald (1849–1937) led a remarkable life…
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“JewAsian” is a qualitative examination of the intersection of race, religion, and ethnicity in the increasing number of households that are Jewish American and Asian American.
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“Illicit Love” is a history of love, sex, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and settler citizens at the heart of two settler colonial nations, the United States and Australia.
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“Now We Will Be Happy” is a prize-winning collection of stories about Afro-Puerto Ricans, U.S.-mainland-born Puerto Ricans, and displaced native Puerto Ricans who are living between spaces while attempting to navigate the unique culture that defines Puerto Rican identity.
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Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 University of Nebraska Press 2011 648 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-2405-6 Anne F. Hyde, William R. Hochman Professor of History Colorado College Winner of the 2012 Bancroft Prize 2012 Pulitzer Prize Finalist To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little…
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Identity Politics of the Captivity Narrative after 1848 University of Nebraska Press 2006 160 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-4400-9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-2067-6 Andrea Tinnemeyer, English Teacher The College Prepartory School, Oakland, California Andrea Tinnemeyer’s book examines the nineteenth-century captivity narrative as a dynamic, complex genre that provided an ample medium for cultural critique, a revision of…
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In a moving account, anthropologist Paula L. Wagoner tells the story of Bennett County, using snapshots of community events and crises, past and present, to reveal the complexity of race relations and identities there.