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: A. B. Wilkinson
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In this book, A. B. Wilkinson complicates that history by investigating how people of mixed African, European, and Native American heritage—commonly referred to as “Mulattoes,” “Mustees,” and “mixed bloods”—were integral to the construction of colonial racial ideologies.
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Blurring the Lines of Race and Freedom: Mulattoes in English Colonial North America and the Early United States Republic University of California at Berkeley Spring 2013 183 pages Aaron B. Wilkinson A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History This project investigates people of mixed…
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Raven-Symoné, Oprah, and What it Means to be (African) American The Huffington Post Black Voices 2014-10-13 A. B. Wilkinson, Assistant Professor of History University of Nevada, Las Vegas Last week entertainer Raven-Symoné appeared on Oprah: Where Are They Now? and proudly stated that she was in “an amazing, happy relationship” with a woman, yet what…