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: Yale University Press
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A restoration of the agency and influence of free African-descended women in colonial Mexico through their traces in archives
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Born in the late nineteenth century into an affluent family of mixed race—black, white, and Cherokee—Adella Hunt Logan (1863–1915) was a key figure in the fight to obtain voting rights for women of color.
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Since I was named for her, Adella Hunt Logan has intrigued and inspired me for decades, but she was always a mystery presence in my life. I only learned as an adult that she’d been a fierce suffrage advocate. Admirable, I thought, since my mother, my aunts, and I were also African American feminists.
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Focusing on Jamaica, Britain’s most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, Brooke Newman explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges associated with British subject status.
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself, Critical Edition
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself, Critical Edition Yale University Press 2016-10-25 264 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 7 b/w illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9780300204711 Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) Edited by: John R. McKivigan, Mary O’Brien Gibson Professor of History Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis Peter P. Hinks Heather L. Kaufman,…
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atrina Jagodinsky’s enlightening history is the first to focus on indigenous women of the Southwest and Pacific Northwest and the ways they dealt with the challenges posed by the existing legal regimes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In most western states, it was difficult if not impossible for Native women to inherit property, raise…
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This issue considers the oeuvre of Haitian writer Marie Vieux-Chauvet (1916–1973) as a prism through which to examine individual and collective subject formation in the postcolonial French-writing Caribbean, the wider Afro-Americas, and beyond.
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Machado de Assis: A Literary Life Yale University Press 2015-05-26 360 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 2 b/w illus. ISBN: 9780300180824 K. David Jackson, Professor of Portuguese and Director of Undergraduate Studies of Portuguese Yale University Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is widely regarded as Brazil’s…