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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Plessy and Ferguson unveil plaque today marking their ancestors’ actions New Orleans Times-Picayune 2009-02-11 Katy Reckdahl Today, Plessy versus Ferguson becomes Plessy and Ferguson, when descendants of opposing parties in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court segregation case stand together to unveil a plaque at the former site of the Press Street Railroad Yards. Standing behind…
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The Slave Trader, the White Slave, and the Politics of Racial Determination in the 1850s Journal of American History Volume 87, Issue 1 (June 2000) pages 43-56 DOI: 10.2307/2567914 Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University In January of 1857 Jane Morrison was sold in the…
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“Quadroon” Balls in the Spanish Period Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association Volume 14, Number 3 (Summer, 1973) pages 310-315 Translated and Edited by Ronald R. Morazan, Assistant Professor of History Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana With the influx of free blacks into Spanish Louisiana from the island of Santo Domingo, the…
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Creole Angel: The Self-Identity of the Free People of Color of Antebellum New Orleans University of North Texas August 2006 136 pages Ben Melvin Hobratsch Thesis Prepared for the Degree of Masters of Arts, University of North Texas, August 2006 This thesis is about the self-identity of antebellum New Orleans’s free people of color. The…
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Long uncovers a connection between the geographical segregation of prostitution and the rising tide of racial segregation. She offers a compelling explanation of how New Orleans’s lucrative sex trade drew tourists from the Bible Belt and beyond even as a nationwide trend toward the commercialization of sex emerged.
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Problems with Plaçage: Historical Imagination and Femmes de couleurs libres in Colonial and Antebellum New Orleans Bridges: A Journal of Student Research Coastal Carolina University Issue 3 (Winter 2009) Philip Whalen, Associate Professor of History Coastal Carolina University This essay compares two approaches to understanding the condition of free women of color who struggled to…
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Brackish Bayou Blood: Weaving Mixed-Blood Indian-Creole Identity Outside the Written Record American Indian Culture and Research Journal Volume 32, Number 2 (2008) Special Issue: Indigenous Locations Post-Katrina: Beyond Invisibility and Disaster Online Date: 2008-08-22 pages 93-108 ISSN: 0161-6463 L. Rain Cranford-Gomez As a child on the Gulf of Mexico, evacuation to higher ground for floods,…
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Black, White, Light, and Bright: A Narrative of Creole Color Past Narratives/Narratives Past Graduate Conference Stanford University, Stanford, California 2001-02-16 through 2001-02-18 20 pages Christopher N. Matthews, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hofstra University Much of the world of life is made real through the symbolic application of color, shade, hue, and other features of visual…
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The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that 2010 Census population totals and demographic characteristics have been released for communities in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. These data have provided the first look at population counts for small areas and race, Hispanic origin, voting age and housing unit data released from…
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Fear and Desire: Regional Aesthetics and Colonial Desire in Kate Chopin’s Portrayals of the Tragic Mulatta Stereotype The Southern Literary Journal Volume 43, Number 1 (Fall 2010) pages 1-22 E-ISSN: 1534-1461 Print ISSN: 0038-4291 Dagmar Pegues The interrogation of the category of race in Kate Chopin’s fiction represents an essential dimension of regional aesthetics, and…