Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: The American Historical Review
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INGRID DINEEN-WIMBERLY. The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862–1916. The American Historical Review Volume 126, Issue 2 (June 2021) pages 797–798 DOI: 10.1093/ahr/rhab307 Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor, Associate Professor of History Kent State University, Kent, Ohio Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly. The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862–1916. (Borderlands and Transcultural Studies.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,…
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Allyson Hobbs. A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life. [Smith-Pryor Review] The American Historical Review Volume 120, Issue 5, December 2015 pages 1903-1904 DOI: 10.1093/ahr/120.5.1903 Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor, Associate Professor of History Kent State University, Kent, Ohio Allyson Hobbs. A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life. Cambridge,…
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Emmanuelle Saada. Empire’s Children: Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies The American Historical Review Volume 118, Issue 2 pages 468-470 DOI: 10.1093/ahr/118.2.468 Gary Wilder, Associate Professor of Anthropology The Graduate Center, City University of New York Emmanuelle Saada, Empire’s Children: Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Chicago:…
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Making Men: Enlightenment Ideas of Racial Engineering The American Historical Review Volume 115, Issue 5 (December 2010) pages 1364-1394 DOI: 10.1086/ahr.115.5.1364 William Max Nelson, Assistant Professor of History University of Toronto A minor nobleman from Alsace, traveling in French colonial Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) on the eve of the French and Haitian revolutions, expressed surprise that…
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Decrying White Peril: Interracial Sex and the Rise of Anticolonial Nationalism in the Gold Coast The American Historical Review Volume 119, Issue 1 (February 2014) pages 78-110 DOI: 10.1093/ahr/119.1.78 Carina E. Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts In the summer and fall of 1919, the African-owned Gold Coast…
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People of mixed racial heritage, or “mulattoes,” symbolized the dependence of white men on black labor, both in the field and in the bed. Marked by their very skin color and other features as products of the white-black encounter in the South, mulatto women were obviously white and not-white, like “our white Caroline.” They were…
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The present essay seeks to explain the ideas about slavery, rape, and commerce embedded in and produced by the passionate desires of Franklin and his partners. For some years, historians interpreting the institutions and ideology of nineteenth-century southern slavery have focused their attentions on explaining slaveholders’ paternalist defenses of their planter institution.