Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

From Wikipedia: A métis is a person born to parents who belong to different groups defined by visible physical differences, regarded as racial, or the descendant of such persons. The term is of French origin, and also is a cognate of mestizo in Spanish, mestiço in Portuguese, and mestee in English. In the Western Hemisphere, this term usually is used to describe someone born or descended from the union of a European and an Amerindian. However, the term was used by other groups around the world, mostly in countries which were under French influence, such as Vietnam. It is still commonly used by Francophones today for any multiracial person...

Comments by Steven F. Riley:

Scholar Jane O. Ifekwunigwe, had used the term métis and/or métisse instead of 'mixed-race' in her early works as a way of focusing away from 'race' as a form of identity. Her desire was to create a common non-racist, non-sexist term that 'mixed-race' individuals could claim as one of their own. But later she states in Mixed Race Studes: A Reader...

"...Using a French-African term in an English context, even if simply for discursive analyses, could be percieved as potentially exoticizing and further marginalizing 'mixed-race' subjectivities..."

She goes on to state...

"...Furthermore, one could argue that partially deflecting the attention away from what I call the popular folk concept of 'race' to other forms of identification and stratification diminishes the significant and potent function institutionalized racism plays in the maintenance of privilege and power for some and disadvantage and discrimination for others. Finally, in attempting to construct a new lexicon, I am perpetuating a fictional history which ignores the ways in which the social processes of 'racial' mixing are themselves old."

Carolina Genesis: Beyond the Color Line

Posted in Anthologies, Anthropology, Biography, Books, History, Media Archive, Native Americans/First Nation, Passing, Religion, Slavery, Tri-Racial Isolates, United States on 2012-04-01 01:48Z by Steven

Carolina Genesis: Beyond the Color Line

Backintyme Publishing
April 2010
258 pages
Paperback ISBN: 9780939479320

Edited by

Scott Withrow

Some Americans pretend that a watertight line separates the “races.” But most know that millions of mixed-heritage families crossed from one “race” to another over the past four centuries. Every essay in this collection tells such a tale. Each speaks with a different style and to different interests. But taken together, the seven articles paint a portrait, unsurpassed in the literature, of migrations, challenges, and triumphs over “racial” obstacles.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Scott Withrow
They Were Other: Free Persons of Color, Restrictive Laws and Migration Patterns by Stacy R. Webb
The Amorgarickakan Lineage of Sarah Junco by Govinda Sanyal
Judging the Moore County Goings / Goyens / Goins Family 1790-1884 by Cyndie Goins Hoelscher
Joseph Willis: Carolinian and Free Person of Color by Scott Withrow
The Leading Edge of Edges: The Tri-racial People of the Winton Triangle by Marvin T. Jones
The Cheraws of Sumter County, South Carolina by S. Pony Hill
Dismal Swamp Quakers on the Color Line by K. Paul Johnson
Meet The Authors

Tags: Backintyme Publishing, Cyndie G. Hoelscher, Cyndie Goins Hoelscher, Cyndie Hoelscher, Govinda Sanyal, K. Paul Johnson, Marvin Jones, Marvin T. Jones, North Carolina, S. Pony Hill, Scott Withrow, South Carolina, Stacy R. Webb, Stacy Webb

M	T	W	T	F	S	S
« Apr
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31

Mixed Race Studies

Carolina Genesis: Beyond the Color Line

Pages

Categories

Calendar of Posts

Links

Meta