Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Duke University Press
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Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature Duke University Press January 2014 176 pages 3 photographs Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5595-3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5581-6 Karla FC Holloway, James B. Duke Professor of English; Professor of Law; Professor of Women’s Studies Duke University In Legal Fictions, Karla FC Holloway both argues that U.S. racial identity is the creation of…
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Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe Duke University Press 2012 256 pages 118 photographs, 10 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5074-3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5056-9 Tina M. Campt, Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Director of the Africana Studies Program Barnard College In Image Matters, Tina M. Campt traces the emergence of…
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A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980 Duke University Press 2007 256 pages 29 illus., 8 tables, 1 map Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4081-2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4060-7 Jeffrey Lesser, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia In A Discontented Diaspora, Jeffrey Lesser investigates broad questions of ethnicity, the nature…
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In “Chocolate and Corn Flour,” Laura A. Lewis explores the history and contemporary culture of San Nicolás, focusing on the ways in which local inhabitants experience and understand race, blackness, and indigeneity, as well as on the cultural values that outsiders place on the community and its residents.
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Representations of multiracial Americans, especially those with one black and one white parent, appear everywhere in contemporary culture, from reality shows to presidential politics. Some depict multiracial individuals as being mired in painful confusion; others equate them with progress, as the embodiment of a postracial utopia. In “Transcending Blackness,” Ralina L. Joseph critiques both depictions…
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Muddied Waters: Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846–1948 Duke University Press 2003 320 pages Illustrations: 9 b&w photos, 5 maps Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-3092-9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-3080-6 Nancy P. Appelbaum, Associate Professor of History Binghamton University, State University of New York Colombia’s western Coffee Region is renowned for the whiteness of its inhabitants, who…
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Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference Duke University Press October 2012 280 pages 5 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5344-7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5329-4 Anne Pollock, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Culture Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia In Medicating Race, Anne Pollock traces the intersecting discourses of race, pharmaceuticals, and heart disease in…
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Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States Duke University Press 2009 408 pages 19 photographs Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4440-7 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4426-1 Micol Seigel, Associate Professor of African-American and African Diaspora Studies Indiana University In Uneven Encounters, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States…
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The artists Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith, and Nikki S. Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender, and class boundaries in works that they have conceived and performed. Cherise Smith analyzes their complex engagements with issues of identity through close readings of a significant performance, or series of performances, by each artist.