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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Historically Black: Imagining Community in a Black Historic District New York University Press July 2014 208 pages 10 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9780814762882 Paper ISBN: 9780814763483 Mieka Brand Polanco, Assistant Professor of Anthropology James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia In Historically Black, Mieka Brand Polanco examines the concept of community in the United States: how communities are…
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No American city’s history better illustrates both the possibilities for alternative racial models and the role of the law in shaping racial identity than New Orleans, Louisiana, which prior to the Civil War was home to America’s most privileged community of people of African descent. In the eyes of the law, New Orleans’s free people…
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Still Jewish: A History of Women and Intermarriage in America New York University Press February 2009 325 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780814757307 Paper ISBN: 9780814764343 Keren R. McGinity, Author-Educator Love & Tradition: intermarriage insights for a Jewish future Over the last century, American Jews married outside their religion at increasing rates. By closely examining the intersection…
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How to Rehabilitate a Mulatto: The Iconography of Tiger Woods Chapter in East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture (pages 222-245) New York University Press May 2005 382 pages 29 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780814719626 Paperback ISBN: 9780814719633 Edited By: Shilpa Davé, Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences; Assistant Professor of Media Studies and American Studies…
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Continuing this discussion of terminology, I prefer mixed race over multiracial, to distance myself from those who wanted to create a new category for racially mixed people. Coverage of the 2000 census gave the impression that all within the Multiracial Movement wanted this. In reality, most wanted some useful identifier of mixed heritage, and the…
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Black in Latin America New York University Press July 2011 270 pages 50 illustrations Hardback ISBN: 9780814732984 Paperback ISBN: 9780814738184 eBook ISBN: Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor of History Harvard University 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just over 11.0 million survived the arduous…
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Barack Obama’s historic presidency has re-inserted mixed race into the national conversation. While the troubled and pejorative history of racial amalgamation throughout U.S. history is a familiar story, “The United States of the United Races” reconsiders an understudied optimist tradition, one which has praised mixture as a means to create a new people, bring equality…