Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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: Emily Epstein Landau
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By Repackaging the Myths of the Tragic Octoroon and the Self-Made Woman, Lulu White Crafted a Persona That Haunts Beyoncé’s “Formation”
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The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880–1930; and Spectacular Wickedness: Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville, New Orleans [Smithers Review] The Journal of American History Volume 100, Issue 4 (March 2014) pages 1222-1224 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jau065 Gregory D. Smithers, Associate Professor of History Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia Jolie A.…
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As part of a new collaboration with the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, NolaVie will spotlight entries from KnowLA.org—the Digital Encyclopedia of Louisiana, including unique events and people in our state’s history. This month, we commemorate the end of Storyville. On November 12th, 1917, Mayor Martin Behrman acquiesced to pressure from the US Navy and…
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In “Spectacular Wickedness,” Emily Epstein Landau examines the social history of this famed district within the cultural context of developing racial, sexual, and gender ideologies and practices.
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“Spectacular wickedness”: New Orleans, prostitution, and the politics of sex, 1897-1917 Yale University May 2005 274 pages Publication Number: AAT 3168932 ISBN: 9780542049149 Emily Epstein Landau A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy This dissertation is a history of the…