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: Mercer University Press
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In “Beyond the Sunset,” Wayne Winkler uses contemporary press reports, long-forgotten documents, and interviews with participants to chronicle the struggles of an impoverished rural Appalachian county to maintain its viability in the modern world–and the unexpected consequences of that effort.
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“Walking toward the Sunset” is a historical examination of the Melungeons, a mixed-race group predominantly in southern Appalachia.
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This unique three-part novel assumes that, regardless of what Americans learn in school, the Southeast was not a barren wilderness when the English arrived at Jamestown. It was full of Native Americans, other Europeans, and Africans who were there for various reasons.
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North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio Mercer University Press 2001 220 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780865547032 John S. Kessler Donald B. Ball The newest book in Mercer University Press’ new series The Melungeons: History, Culture, Ethnicity, and Literature is North from the Mountains: A Folk History of…
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In the late 1700s the roots of cowboy culture arose out of the Carolinas. These men and women were not the typical white ranchers that would be depicted in later stories and films. Instead they were a group of “tri-racial isolates.”
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Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America Mercer University Press 2006 192 pages ISBN (paperback): 9780881460742 ISBN (hardback): 9780881460131 Tim Hashaw Some oppressed groups fought with guns, some fought in court, some exercised civil disobedience; the Melungeons, however, fought by telling folktales. Whites and blacks gave the name “children of perdition” to…