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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Who’s Black and Why? A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race Harvard University Press 2022-03-22 320 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 21 photos, 1 table Hardcover ISBN: 9780674244269 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alfonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor; Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Andrew…
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How white and black people thought about race and how both groups understood and attempted to define and control the demographic transformation are the subjects of this new book by a rising star in American history.
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In “The Fateful Triangle”—drawn from lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1994—one of the founding figures of cultural studies reflects on the divisive, often deadly consequences of our contemporary politics of identification.
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The Lives of Frederick Douglass Harvard University Press February 2016 350 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches 9 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780674055810 Robert S. Levine, Professor of English and a Distinguished University Professor University of Maryland Frederick Douglass’s fluid, changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in the many conflicting accounts he gave of…
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Well known as an abolitionist stronghold before the Civil War, Massachusetts had taken steps to eliminate slavery as early as the 1780s. Nevertheless, a powerful racial caste system still held sway, reinforced by a law prohibiting “amalgamation”—marriage between whites and blacks. “The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts” chronicles a grassroots movement to…
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“In Lines of Descent,” Kwame Anthony Appiah traces the twin lineages of Du Bois’ American experience and German apprenticeship, showing how they shaped the great African-American scholar’s ideas of race and social identity.
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Forty years ago, after publication of his pathbreaking book “Sugar and Slaves,” Richard Dunn began an intensive investigation of two thousand slaves living on two plantations, one in North America and one in the Caribbean.
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A History of Loss Harvard University Press Blog Harvard University Press 2014-10-08 Between the late eighteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families, friends, and communities without any available avenue for return. As historian Allyson Hobbs explains in A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life,…
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The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea Harvard University Press October 2014 384 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 4 halftones, 2 line illustrations Hardcover ISBN: 9780674417311 Robert Wald Sussman, Professor of Physical Anthropology Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Biological races do not exist—and never have. This view is shared by all…