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: Winthrop D. Jordan
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Winthrop Jordan, one of the most honored of US historians, wrote about racial mixing a generation before there was a field of mixed race studies. At the time of his death, he left an unfinished manuscript: “Historical Origins of the One-Drop Racial Rule in the United States.” For this inaugural issue of the JCMRS, Jordan’s…
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Neither White Nor Black: The Mulatto Character in American Fiction New York University Press 1978 280 pages ISBN-10: 0814709966; ISBN-13: 978-0814709962 9 x 6 x 1 inches This book is out of print. Judith R. Berzon The mulatto character has captured the imagination of American novelist in every period of our literature. For American writers, the…