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: Louisiana State University Press
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In “North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885,” Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. examines the lives of free persons categorized by their communities as “negroes,” “mulattoes,” “mustees,” “Indians,” “mixed-bloods,” or simply “free people of color.”
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Band of Angels, A Novel Louisiana State University Press August 1994 (originally published in 1955) 375 pages 5.50 x 8.50 inches no illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9780807119464 Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) Amantha Starr, born and raised by a doting father on a Kentucky plantation in the years before the Civil War, is the heroine of this…
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There is good reason to expect that in the United States today individuals who identify as multiracial experience negative treatment. Multiracial individuals report encountering discrimination and microaggressive behaviors such as racial exclusion and marginalization, exoticization, invalidation of their racial identities, and racial essentialization.2 These behaviors are in part a result of the kinds of racism…
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Historians have long discussed the interracial families of prominent slave dealers in Richmond, Virginia, and elsewhere, yet, until now, the story of slave trader Bacon Tait remained untold. Among the most prominent and wealthy citizens of Richmond, Bacon Tait embarked upon a striking and unexpected double life: that of a white slave trader married to…
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In the Creole Twilight: Poems and Songs from Louisiana Folklore Louisiana State University Press September 2015 88 pages 6.00 x 9.00 inches 30 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780807161548 Joshua Clegg Caffery, Visiting Professor in Folklore Indiana University, Bloomington Many recurring motifs found in south Louisiana’s culture spring from the state’s rich folklore. Influenced by settlers of…
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Blood Work: Imagining Race in American Literature, 1890-1940 Louisiana State University Press January 2015 240 pages 5.50 x 8.50 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780807157848 Shawn Salvant, Assistant Professor of English and African American University of Connecticut The invocation of blood—as both an image and a concept—has long been critical in the formation of American racism. In…
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Flight: A Novel Louisiana State University Press April 1998 (Originally published in 1926) 304 pages 5.50 x 8.50 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780807122808 Walter White (1893-1955) Published amid controversy in 1926, Flight focuses on the dilemma of Mimi Daquin, a light-complexioned African American woman who passes, for a time, as white. In the New Orleans of…