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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As the oldest career National Park Service ranger, Betty Soskin is unabashed about revealing all of America’s history—and her optimism about our future.
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The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit Penguin Classics 2017-07-10 208 pages 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 Paperback ISBN: 9780143132653 Ebook ISBN: 9780525504580 John Rollin Ridge (1827-1867) Foreword by Diana Gabaldon Introduction by Hsuan L. Hsu Notes by Hsuan L. Hsu The first novel to feature a Mexican American hero: an adventure tale…
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For many, 1968 was marked by violence, bloodshed and protest. For Janice, a white woman, and Charles, a black man, 1968 marked the unlikely beginning of a 50-year marriage filled with four children and 11 grandchildren.
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Fredrick D. Kakinami Cloyd’s debut, “Dream of the Water Children: Memory and Mourning in the Black Pacific,” is a lyrical and compelling memoir about a son of an African American father and a Japanese mother who has spent a lifetime being looked upon with curiosity and suspicion by both sides of his ancestry and the…
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Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918) was a painter, graphic designer, and lithographer in the 19th century. A talented artist and entrepreneur, Brown was the only documented African American in his field in the western United States at the time.
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A powerful novel about ethnically fluid California, and the corrosive relationship between two Filipino brothers.