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: Daniel A. Livesay
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By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain Fortune reinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family membership. Using wills, legal petitions, family correspondences, and inheritance lawsuits, Daniel Livesay is the first scholar to follow the hundreds of children…
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During the long eighteenth century, elite free people of color in Jamaica petitioned the government for exemptions to some of the island’s laws against those with African ancestry. In making these appeals, they highlighted advanced social and financial positions that put them above the average Jamaican of color.
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Three years prior to the ending of the slave trade, Jamaica’s richest and most influential merchant mused on the possible consequences of abolition. Writing to his friend George Hibbert in January of 1804, Simon Taylor offered a stark vision of the British imperial economy without slave importation, echoing scores of other pro-slavery writers who preached…
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The story of the Hay children in Dornoch, however, was not at all unique at the turn of the nineteenth century. Rather, the Hays were members of a regular migration of mixed-race West Indians who arrived in the home country during the period.
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Children of Empire: The Fate of Mixed-Race Individuals in British India, the Caribbean, and the Early American Republic 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 105: North American Conference on British Studies Friday, 2013-01-04, 10:30-12:00 CST (Local Time) Chamber Ballroom III (Roosevelt New Orleans) Chair: Kathleen…
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Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-Race Migration from the West Indies to Britain, 1750-1820 The University of Michigan 2010 481 pages Daniel Alan Livesay, Assistant Professor of History Drury University, Springfield, Missouri A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (History) in The University of Michigan 2010 This dissertation shows…