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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What’s in a Name? Mixed-Race Families and Resistance to Racial Codification in Eighteenth-Century France French Historical Studies Volume 33, Number 3 (2010) Pages 357-385 DOI: 10.1215/00161071-2010-002 Jennifer L. Palmer, Collegiate Assistant Professor of History University of Chicago The Saint-Domingue planter Aimé-Benjamin Fleuriau did not simply leave colonialism behind when he returned to his hometown La…
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Davidson Welcomes New Professors into the Fold Davidson College Davidson, North Carolina 2007-08-30 Rachel Andoga Davidson welcomes five new assistant professors into tenure-track positions this semester. Here are profiles of their careers and academic interests. Caroline Beschea-Fache, a native of northern France, joins the French Department as a specialist in Métissage, the study of biracialism,…
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This book recreates the lives of the children born of relationships between French men and African women from the time France colonized much of West Africa towards the end of the 19th century, until independence in 1960.
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Through Russwurm’s Eyes: ‘The Conditions and Prospects of Haiti’ Campus News Bowdoin College 2010-03-01 John B. Russwurm, the College’s first African-American graduate and thought to be the third African-American to graduate from an American college, delivered a commencement address in 1826 that resonates nearly 184 years later. The speech, “The Condition and Prospects of Haiti,”…
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Legal Transplants: Slavery and the Civil Law in Louisiana University of Southern California Legal Studies Working Paper Series Working Paper 32 May 2009 37 pages Ariela J. Gross, Professor of Law and History University of Southern California Law School Can Louisiana tell us something about civil law vs. common law regimes of slavery? What can…
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Mixed-Race Issues in the American and French Melodrama: An Analysis of the Imitation of Life Films (Stahl, USA, 1934; Sirk, USA, 1959) and Métisse (Kassovitz, France, 1993) In: Martin McLoone & Kevin Rockett, eds. Irish Films, Global Cinema, Studies in Irish Film 4. Four Courts Press 2007 176 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-1-84682-081-6 Zélie Asava University…