Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Yet having populated North America for nearly four centuries, mixed-race people are far from being a recent phenomenon in the United States. Their early presence has been recorded to greater and lesser degrees in legal records, literature, and historical documentation. As far back as the 1630s and 1640s, colonial records attest to the punishment of interracial sexual unions and the regulation of mulattoes’ slave status (Williamson, 1980). Dictionaries chart 16th-century English usage of the word mulatow (Sollors, 2000), although the meaning of this term has varied over time (Forbes, 1993). Finally, mixed-race people have long populated American literature, particularly since the early 19th century (Sollors, 2000). In sum, the multiracial community is not a new, 20th century phenomenon but rather a long-standing element of American society.

Ann Morning, “New Faces, Old Faces: Counting the Multiracial Population Past and Present,” in New Faces in a Changing America: Multiracial Identity in the 21st Century, ed. Loretta I. Winters and Herman L. DeBose (dd: SAGE Publication, 2002), 41.

2016 Duke Global Brazil Conference

Posted in Brazil, Caribbean/Latin America, Health/Medicine/Genetics, Live Events, Media Archive, Politics/Public Policy, Social Science on 2016-03-03 21:11Z by Steven

2016 Duke Global Brazil Conference

Duke University
Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (FHI Garage)
C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse
Durham, North Carolina
2016-03-04, 09:00-17:30 EST (Local Time)

Co-sponsored by FHI Global Brazil Lab and the Duke Brazil Initiative

Invited guests include:

Keynote: Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman (USF) – The Color of Love in Bahia
Dr. John Collins (CUNY) – Race, Violence, and the State in Bahia
Dr. William Pan (Duke) – Environment and Health in the Amazon
Dr. Bryan Pitts (U.Ga) – Sound and Politics
Guilherme Andreas (JMU) – Flute recital with piano by Gianne Ge Zhu

For more information, click here.

Tags: Bryan Pitts, Duke Brazil Initiative, Duke University, Elizabeth Hordge Freeman, Guilherme Andreas, John Collins, William Pan

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