Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Tag: Fay A. Yarbrough

Power, Perception, and Interracial Sex: Former Slaves Recall a Multiracial South

2011-12-21

Power, Perception, and Interracial Sex: Former Slaves Recall a Multiracial South The Journal of Southern History Volume 71, Number 3 (August, 2005) pages 559-588 Fay A. Yarbrough, Associate Professor of History University of Oklahoma My father’s name wuz Robert Stewart. He wuz a white man. My mother wuz named Ann. She wuz part Indian. Her…
Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century

2010-02-09

“Race and the Cherokee Nation” examines how leaders of the Cherokee Nation fostered a racial ideology through the regulation of interracial marriage. By defining and policing interracial sex, nineteenth-century Cherokee lawmakers preserved political sovereignty, delineated Cherokee identity, and established a social hierarchy.
Legislating Women’s Sexuality: Cherokee Marriage Laws in the Nineteenth Century

2010-02-09

Legislating Women’s Sexuality: Cherokee Marriage Laws in the Nineteenth Century Journal of Social History Volume 38, Number 2, Winter 2004 E-ISSN: 1527-1897 Print ISSN: 0022-4529 DOI: 10.1353/jsh.2004.0144 Fay A. Yarbrough, Associate Professor of History University of Oklahoma During the first half of the nineteenth century, the Cherokee Nation passed many laws to regulate marriage and…