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: American Nineteenth Century History
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Plaçage and the Performance of Whiteness: The Trial of Eulalie Mandeville, Free Colored Woman, of Antebellum New Orleans American Nineteenth Century History Volume 15, Issue 2, 2014 pages 187-209 DOI: 10.1080/14664658.2014.959818 Carol Wilson, Arthur A. and Elizabeth R. Knapp Professor of American History Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland Depictions of plaçage, a type of concubinage found…
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Globalizing a Race to Publish an Encyclopedia American Nineteenth Century History Volume 11, Issue 1 (2010) pages 79-94 DOI: 10.1080/14664651003616966 Michael Benjamin, Independent Scholar African American Print Culture Cleveland, Ohio, USA In 1912, Daniel Alexander Payne Murray published a prospectus for his “Historical and Biographical Encyclopedia of the Colored Race throughout the World.” He promised…
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The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory [Review: Zack] American Nineteenth Century History Volume 11, Issue 2 (2010) pages 269-270 DOI: 10.1080/14664658.2010.481885 Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory Tavia Nyong’o Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009 Pp. 230. ISBNs 978…
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Reconstruction, Segregation, and Miscegenation: Interracial Marriage and the Law in the Lower South, 1865-1900 American Nineteenth Century History Volume 6, Issue 1 March 2005 pages 57-76 DOI: 10.1080/14664650500121827 Peter Wallenstein, Professor of History Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University On the eve of Congressional Reconstruction, all seven states of the Lower South had laws against…