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: The William and Mary Quarterly
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The Pleasures of Taxonomy: Casta Paintings, Classification, and Colonialism The William and Mary Quarterly Volume 73, Number 3, July 2016, 3rd series pages 427-466 Rebecca Earle, Professor School of Comparative American Studies University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom A new model for thinking about the socioracial categories depicted in casta paintings (remarkable eighteenth-century Spanish American…
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“The Christened Mulatresses”: Euro-African Families in a Slave-Trading Town The William and Mary Quarterly Volume 70, Number 2, April 2013 pages 371-398 DOI: 10.5309/willmaryquar.70.2.0371 Pernille Ipsen, Assistant Professor Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Department of History University of Wisconsin, Madison “MULATRESSE Lene”—or Lene Kühberg, as she is also called in the Danish sources—grew up…