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: Oxford University Press
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The Michif language—spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada—is considered an “impossible language” since it uses French for nouns and Cree for verbs, and comprises two different sets of grammatical rules. Bakker uses historical research and fieldwork data to present the first detailed analysis of this language and…
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Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America Oxford University Press 2010-02-16 352 Pages 15 b/w photos 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780195379792 Paperback ISBN: 9780199794454 Sharon Davies, Professor of Law; Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties; Director of the Kirwan Institute for the…
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Family Money explores the histories of formerly enslaved women who tried to claim inheritances left to them by deceased owners, the household traumas of mixed-race slaves, post-Emancipation calls for reparations, and the economic fallout from anti-miscegenation marriage laws.
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A long-awaited history that promises to dramatically change our understanding of race in America, “What Comes Naturally” traces the origins, spread, and demise of miscegenation laws in the United States–laws that banned interracial marriage and sex, most often between whites and members of other races. Peggy Pascoe demonstrates how these laws were enacted and applied…
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Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical Oxford University Press October 2012 328 pages ISBN13: 9780199759378; ISBN10: 0199759375 Todd Decker, Assistant Professor, Musicology Washington University in St. Louis Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical tells the full story of the making and remaking of the most important musical in Broadway history. Drawing…
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The Slum [O Cortiço] Oxford University Press March 2000 (First published in 1890) 240 pages Paperback ISBN 13: 9780195121872; ISBN 10: 0195121872 Aluísio Azevedo Edited and Translated by David H. Rosenthal Features an informative introduction by translator David H. Rosenthal First published in 1890, and undoubtedly Azevedo’s masterpiece, The Slum is one of the most…