Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
- Loving Across Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health Conference
- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- 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.
about
Tag: France
-
Assimilation and Racialism in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Colonial Policy The American Historical Review 2005 Volume 110, Number 2 Saliha Belmessous, Research Fellow of History University of Syndey Although the idea of race is increasingly being historicized, its emergence in the context of French colonization remains shadowy. This is despite the fact that colonization was…
-
The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, born Joseph Bologne, was the son of an African slave and a French plantation owner on the island of Guadeloupe. The story of his improbable rise in French society, his life as a famous fencer, celebrated violinist-composer and conductor, and later commander of a colored regiment in the French Revolution, should,…
-
The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean Duke University Press May 2005 408 pages 19 b&w photographs Cloth ISBN: 0-8223-3453-4, ISBN13 978-0-8223-3453-8 Paperback ISBN: 0-8223-3465-8, ISBN13 978-0-8223-3465-1 Doris Garraway, Associate Professor of French Northwestern University Presenting incisive original readings of French writing about the Caribbean from the inception of colonization in the 1640s…
-
The One-Drop Rule in Reverse? Interracial Marriages in Napoleonic and Restoration France Law and History Review Volume 27, Number 3 Fall 2009 University of Illinois Jennifer Heuer, Associate Professor Department of History University of Massachusetts at Amherst In the early nineteenth century, an obscure rural policeman petitioned the French government with an unusual story. Charles…
-
Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique University of Pennsylvania Press July 2009 312 pages 6 x 9; 7 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8122-4172-3 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8122-2227-2 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8122-0356-1 Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss, Associate Professor of History Texas A & M University From its founding, Martinique played an integral role in France’s Atlantic empire.…