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: Slavery & Abolition
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‘I am not a beggar’: Moses Roper, Black Witness and the Lost Opportunity of British Abolitionism Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies Published online 2022-02-09 DOI: 10.1080/0144039X.2022.2027656 Fionnghuala Sweeney, Reader in American and Black Atlantic Literatures Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Bruce E. Baker, Historian Paxton, Scotland, United Kingdom…
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Racial group boundaries and identities: People of ‘mixed‐race’ in slavery across the Americas Slavery & Abolition Volume 15, Issue 3 (1994) pages 17-37 DOI: 10.1080/01440399408575137 Stephen Small, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of California, Berkeley One of the fundamental developments to arise as a result of the settling of the Americas by Europeans…
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Slave Mothers and White Fathers: Defining Family and Status in Late Colonial Cuba Slavery & Abolition Volume 31, Issue 1 (March 2010) pages 29-55 DOI: 10.1080/01440390903481647 Karen Y. Morrison, Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies University of Massachusetts, Amherst This paper outlines the mechanisms used to position the offspring of slave women and white men at…
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‘No Such Thing as a Mulatto Slave’: Legal Pluralism, Racial Descent and the Nuances of Slave Women’s Sexual Vulnerability in the Legal Odyssey of Steyntje van de Kaap, c.1815-1822 Fiona Vernal Department of History University of Connecticut Slavery & Abolition Volume 29, Issue 1 January 2008 pages 23 – 47 DOI: 10.1080/01440390701841034 In 1815, a…