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: Jacqueline Jones
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Lucy Parsons occupies an unusual position in American history: a prominent woman noted as much for her acts of brilliance and bravery as for her evasiveness and contradictions.
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‘A Dreadful Deceit’ argues against a ‘racial’ past The Los Angeles Times 2013-12-20 Robin D.G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor of History University of California, Los Angeles Jacqueline Jones in ‘A Dreadful Deceit’ aims to debunk the ‘myth of race’ and the ‘American creation story’ but for the most part is unconvincing in her argument. Jacqueline Jones, A…
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“Dreadful Deceit”: Race is a myth Salon Sunday, 2013-12-15 Laura Miller, Staff Writer A historian argues that one of the defining elements of American culture is merely a “social fiction” Jacqueline Jones’ provocative new history, “Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race From the Colonial Era to Obama’s America,” contains a startling sentence on its 265th…
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In “A Dreadful Deceit,” award-winning historian Jacqueline Jones traces the lives of Antonio, Owens, and four other African Americans to illustrate the strange history of “race” in America. In truth, Jones shows, race does not exist, and the very factors that we think of as determining it— a person’s heritage or skin color—are mere pretexts…