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: Frederick Douglass
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Building Multiracial Fortunes: Black Identity, Masculinity, and Authenticity Through the Body of T. Thomas Fortune, 1883-1907 San Diego State University Fall 2011 69 pages Guy Mount A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of San Diego State University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in History This thesis examines the…
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The Bondage of Race and the Freedom of Transcendence in Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English since 2000 Durham University Issue Number 4 (September 2001) Briallen Hopper, Lecturer in English Yale University Frederick Douglass has a strange way of describing what he feels like…
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In my first marriage I paid my compliments to my mother’s race; in my second marriage I paid my compliments to the race of my father. Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
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My strongest conviction as to the future of the negro therefore is, that he will not be expatriated nor annihilated, nor will he forever remain a separate and distinct race from the people around him, but that he will be absorbed, assimilated, and will only appear finally, as the Phoenicians now appear on the shores…
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Douglass, Ellison and Marley lived on racial frontiers. Their interactions with mixed audiences made them key figures in an interracial consciousness and culture, integrative ancestors who can be claimed by more than one group.
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Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative Indiana University Press 2007-12-04 272 pages 30 b&w photos, 6.125 x 9.25 ISBN-13: 978-0-253-34944-6 ISBN: 0-253-34944-3 Michael A. Chaney, Associate Professor of English Dartmouth College Analyzing the impact of black abolitionist iconography on early black literature and the formation of black identity, Fugitive Vision examines…
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Meeting the Needs of Multiethnic and Multiracial Children in Schools Merrill an imprint of Pearson 2003-10-23 256 pages ISBN-10: 0205376088 ISBN-13: 9780205376087 Francis Wardle Red Rocks Community College, Colorado Maria I. Cruz-Janzen, Associate Professor of Multicultural Education Florida Atlantic University From one of the premiere experts on the subject comes this “crash course” for teachers…
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The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice (Review) by Ronald R. Sundstrom SUNY Press 2008, 190pp., $24.95 (pbk.) ISBN: 9780791475867 Notre Dame Philisophical Reviews 2009-06-29 Reviewed by Lucius T. Outlaw (Jr.) Vanderbilt University The United States is undergoing the most profound demographic changes in the country’s history so that in a few…
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“Our Duty to Conserve”: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Philosophy of History in Context South Atlantic Quarterly Volume 108, Number 3 (2009) pages 519-540 DOI: 10.1215/00382876-2009-006 Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy Pennsylvania State University When restored to its historical context, W. E. B. Du Bois‘s “The Conservation of Races” emerges less as…