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: Brooke N. Newman
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In eighteenth–century Jamaica, who counted as a British subject? As Brooke N. Newman demonstrates in her impressively researched new book, the answer was complicated.
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Focusing on Jamaica, Britain’s most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, Brooke Newman explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges associated with British subject status.
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Gender, Sexuality and the Formation of Racial Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Caribbean World Gender & History Volume 22, Issue 3 (November 2010) pages 585–602 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2010.01613.x Brooke N. Newman, John Carter Brown Library Scholar (2010-2011) University of Oxford In recent years, scholars have directed considerable attention to the influence of gender relations and sexual practices…