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 North Carolina Press
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A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery University of North Carolina Press September 2011 (originally published in 1840) 50 pages 6 x 9, 4 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-6965-9 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8078-6966-6 Moses Roper (c1815-1891) The Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper can be read as…
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The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves’ Civil War University of North Carolina Press September 2012 352 pages 17 halftones, 4 maps, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-2190-6 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8078-3812-9 David S. Cecelski AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS 2012 North Caroliniana Book Award, The North Caroliniana Society Ragan Old North State…
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This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Langston Hughes, and their little-known Chinese allies during World War II and the Cold War—journalist, musician, and Christian activist Liu Liangmo, and Sino-Caribbean dancer-choreographer Sylvia Si-lan Chen.
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Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South University of North Carolina Press October 2021 76 pages 6.125 x 9.25 14 halftones, notes, bibl., index Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-6439-2 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-6438-5 Warren Eugene Milteer Jr., Assistant Professor of History University of North Carolina, Greensboro On the eve of the Civil War, most people…
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That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing University of North Carolina Press October 2020 242 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 10 halftones, 1 fig Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-5957-2 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-5956-5 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-5958-9 Julia S. Charles, Assistant Professor of English Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama In this study of racial passing literature, Julia S.…
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In this book, A. B. Wilkinson complicates that history by investigating how people of mixed African, European, and Native American heritage—commonly referred to as “Mulattoes,” “Mustees,” and “mixed bloods”—were integral to the construction of colonial racial ideologies.
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Dr. Moore was one-third of the mighty “Triumvirate” alongside John Merrick and C. C. Spaulding, credited with establishing Durham as the capital of the African American middle class in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and founding Durham’s famed Black Wall Street.
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“Jamaica Ladies” is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire.
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As the largest tribe east of the Mississippi and one of the largest in the country, the Lumbees have survived in their original homelands, maintaining a distinct identity as Indians in a biracial South.
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His narrative documents his persistent attempts to escape to freedom, beginning at age ten, offering an insider’s view of the degradation and varieties of slavery as well as its bitter legacies within families.