Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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: Oxford University Press
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“Perhaps not since Ashley Montagu’s revolutionary, Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race (1942), has a more important work on the pernicious aspects of race and racialization been written. The Arc of a Bad Idea, Understanding and Transcending Race, upends and debunks our conventional thinking about race and ending racism. Carlos Hoyt has written…
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The first fugitive slave narrative in American history
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“She is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body” traces the history of the Cuban mulata and her association with hips, sensuality and popular dance. It examines how the mulata choreographs her racialised identity through her hips and enacts an embodied theory called hip(g)nosis
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First detailed study of “literary race” in eighteenth-century America
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“The Color Factor: The Economics of African-American Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century South” demonstrates that the emergent twenty-first-century recognition of race mixing and the relative advantages of light-skinned, mixed-race people represent a re-emergence of one salient feature of race in America that dates to its founding.
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The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era Oxford University Press 2014-10-14 320 Pages 30 half-tones 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780199778805 Michael A. Ross, Associate Professor of History University of Maryland Offers a glimpse into the volatile racial world of Reconstruction era New Orleans Guides readers through…