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 Mississippi
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An exposition of a dynamic, multiracial-racial identity
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How the cinematic act of passing embodied, exacerbated, and sometimes alleviated American fears
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Modern American Spiritualism blossomed in the 1850s and continued as a viable faith into the 1870s. Because of its diversity and openness to new cultures and religions, New Orleans provided fertile ground to nurture Spiritualism, and many séance circles flourished in the Creole Faubourgs of Tremé and Marigny as well as the American sector of…
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Legend of the Free State of Jones University Press of Mississippi 2009-10-07 143 pages 3 maps, 7 b&w illustrations 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches Paper ISBN: 978-1-60473-571-0 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-60473-572-7 Rudy H. Leverett The original, full accounting of a rebellion in the heart of Dixie A maverick, unionist district in the heart of the…
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The Story of French New Orleans: History of a Creole City University Press of Mississippi January 2016 208 pages (approx.) 1 map, bibliography, index 6 x 9 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9781496804860 Dianne Guenin-Lelle, Professor of French Albion College, Albion, Michigan Why New Orleans is considered America’s distinctly French city What is it about the city…
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Using cultural theory, author R. Bruce Brasell investigates issues surrounding the discursive presentation of the American South as biracial and explores its manifestation in documentary films, including such works as “Tell about the South,” “bro•ken/ground,” and “Family Name.”
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Beyond Windrush: Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature University Press of Mississippi 2015-07-10 234 pages 1 b&w illustration, 3 maps, introduction, epilogue, index 6 x 9 inches Hardcover ISBN:9781628464757 Edited by: Dillon Brown, Associate Professor of English and African and African American Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Leah Reade Rosenberg, Associate Professor of English University of…
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A study of how notions of place and race inform the identities and performances of musicians in contemporary Cuba