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 Press of Florida
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The Politics of Race in Panama: Afro-Hispanic and West Indian Literary Discourses of Contention University Press of Florida 2014-04-15 200 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-4986-1 Sonja Stephenson Watson, Associate Professor of Spanish University of Texas, Arlington This volume tells the story of two cultural groups: Afro-Hispanics, whose ancestors came to Panama as…
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The story of Mary Musgrove (1700-1764), a Creek Indian-English woman struggling for success in colonial society, is an improbable one.
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Between 1920 and 1949, Collins documented African American life, capturing images of graduations, communions, and recitals, and allowing her subjects to help craft their images. She supported herself and her family throughout the Great Depression and in the process created an enduring pictorial record of her particular time and place. Collins left behind a visual…
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The Black Seminoles: History of a Freedom-Seeking People University Press of Florida 1996-09-14 352 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-1451-7 Kenneth W. Porter, Professor of History Emeritus University of Oregon Edited by: Alcione M. Amos, Librarian Thomas P. Senter, M.D. This story of a remarkable people, the Black Seminoles, and their charismatic leader,…
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Adlai Murdoch offers a detailed rereading of five major contemporary French Caribbean writers–Glissant, Condé, Maximin, Dracius-Pinalie, and Chamoiseau. Emphasizing the role of narrative in fashioning the cultural and political doubleness of Caribbean Creole identity, Murdoch shows how these authors actively rewrite their own colonially driven history.
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For the first time, all the proslavery—but also pro-black—writings of Zephaniah Kingsley (1765-1843) appear together in one volume. Kingsley was a slave trader and the owner of a large plantation near Jacksonville in what was then Spanish East Florida. He married one of his slaves and had children with several others.