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: University of Nebraska Press
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Shape Shifters: Journeys across Terrains of Race and Identity University of Nebraska Press January 2020 432 pages 8 photos, index Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4962-0663-3 eBook (EPUB) ISBN: 978-1-4962-1698-4 eBook (PDF) ISBN: 978-1-4962-1700-4 Edited by: Lily Anne Y. Welty Tamai, Curator of History Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, California Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly, Professor of History University of…
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Although these people might have chosen to pass as White to avoid the racial violence and exclusion associated with the dominant racial ideology of the time, they instead chose to identify as Black Americans, a decision which provided upward mobility in social, political, and economic terms.
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The value of black pride cannot be overstated in its role of providing hope, dignity, and political strength to a population that has long existed within a racist white supremacist nation.1 After centuries of American history that have consistently made it difficult to be anything but black (via hypodescent) and made black pride the most…
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In “Shades of Gray” Molly Littlewood McKibbin offers a social and literary history of multiracialism in the twentieth-century United States.
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In Bitterroot Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to understand the complexities and struggles of being an American Indian child adopted by a white couple and living in the rural American West.
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Race Experts: Sculpture, Anthropology, and the American Public in Malvina Hoffman’s Races of Mankind
In “Race Experts” Linda Kim examines the complicated and ambivalent role played by sculptor Malvina Hoffman in “The Races of Mankind” series created for the Chicago Field Museum in 1930.
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“Declared Defective” is the anthropological history of an outcast community and a critical reevaluation of The Nam Family, written in 1912 by Arthur Estabrook and Charles Davenport, leaders of the early twentieth-century eugenics movement. Based on their investigations of an obscure rural enclave in upstate New York, the biologists were repulsed by the poverty and…
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“Bending Their Way Onward” is an extensive collection of letters and journals describing the travels of the Creeks as they moved from Alabama to present-day Oklahoma. This volume includes documents related to the “voluntary” emigrations that took place beginning in 1827 as well as the official conductor journals and other materials documenting the forced removals…
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In Hawaiian by Birth Joy Schulz explores the tensions among the competing parental, cultural, and educational interests affecting these children and, in turn, the impact the children had on nineteenth-century U.S. foreign policy.
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In “Perishing Heathens” Julius H. Rubin tells the stories of missionary men and women who between 1800 and 1830 responded to the call to save Native peoples through missions, especially the Osages in the Arkansas Territory, Cherokees in Tennessee and Georgia, and Ojibwe peoples in the Michigan Territory. Rubin also recounts the lives of Native…