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 Press of Kansas
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In “The Journey to Separate but Equal: Madame Decuir’s Quest for Racial Justice in the Reconstruction Era,” Jack Beermann tells the story of how, in Hall v. Decuir, the post–Civil War US Supreme Court took its first step toward perpetuating the subjugation of the non-White population of the United States by actively preventing a Southern…
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The Cherokee Kid: Will Rogers, Tribal Identity, and the Making of an American Icon University Press of Kansas June 2015 400 pages 7 illustrations, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2100-2 Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2101-9 Amy M. Ware Early in the twentieth century, the political humorist Will Rogers was arguably the most famous cowboy in America. And…
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Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry tells the story of this couple and the case that forever changed the law of race and marriage in America.
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Plessy v. Ferguson: Race and Inequality in Jim Crow America University Press of Kansas April 2012 224 pages 5-1⁄2 x 8-1⁄2 Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-1846-0 Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-1847-7 Williamjames Hull Hoffer, Associate Professor of History Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey Six decades before Rosa Parks boarded her fateful bus, another traveler in the Deep…
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This book shows that without the cooperation of the “mixed-bloods,” or part-Indians, dispossession of Indian lands by the U.S. government in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries would have been much more difficult to accomplish.