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: University Press of Mississippi
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Somebody Always Singing You University Press of Mississippi 1997 160 pages ISBN: 0878059814 (9780878059812) Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees The story of a multi-racial woman coming to understand her identity As the child of African-American and Native American parents, Kaylynn TwoTrees grew up hearing herself called “half breed” and “mixed blood,” terms which now, after many transforming…
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“Whiteness in the Novels of Charles W. Chesnutt” is the first study to focus exclusively on Chesnutt’s novels. Examining the three published in Chesnutt’s lifetime—”The House Behind the Cedars,” “The Marrow of Tradition,” and “The Colonel’s Dream”—as well as his posthumously published novels, this study explores the dilemma of a black writer who wrote primarily…
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An exploration of a great American writer’s abiding concern with the color line
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Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country University Press of Mississippi 1994 192 pages Paper ISBN: 0878059490, ISBN 13: 9780878059492 Carl A. Brasseaux, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism University of Louisiana, Lafayette Claude F. Oubre Keith P. Fontenot Creoles of Color are rightfully among the first families of…
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An analysis of how black women used the mulatta figure to contest racial barriers.