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 Arkansas Press
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The Caged Bird: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price University of Arkansas Press September 2015 Produced by James Greeson Associate Producer – Dale Carpenter Narrated by Julia Sampson Running Time: 00:57:00 DVD ISBN: 978-1-68226-006-7 Born in 1887 in Little Rock, Arkansas to extraordinary parents, Florence B. Price became the first African-American woman to…
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In this fascinating biography set in nineteenth-century Savannah, Georgia, Janice L. Sumler-Edmond resurrects the life and times of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault, a free woman of color whose story was until now lost to historical memory.
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In “Protection Spell” Jennifer Givhan explores the guilt, sadness, and freedom of relationships: the sticky love that keeps us hanging on for no reason other than love, the inky place that asks us to continue revising and reimagining, tying ourselves to this life and to each other despite the pain (or perhaps because of it).
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In 2005 Margaret Jones Bolsterli learned that her great-great-grandfather was a free mulatto named Jordan Chavis, who owned an antebellum plantation near Vicksburg, Mississippi. The news was a shock; Bolsterli had heard about the plantation in family stories told during her Arkansas Delta childhood, but Chavis’s name and race had never been mentioned.
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Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880–1920 University of Arkansas Press 2000 464 pages 64 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55728-593-5 | 1-55728-593-4 Willard B. Gatewood, Alumni Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus University of Arkansas, Fayetteville This monumental work is a classic study of the black “aristocracy” which developed in the United States in the years following…
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In an era in which African Americans were oppressed and deprived of many of the rights and privileges of citizenship, Scott Bond rose from being born a slave in Madison County, Mississippi, in the early 1850s to wealth and status as a farmer, merchant, and business entrepreneur in Madison, Arkansas, by the early 1900s.
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Dangerous Liaisons: Sex and Love in the Segregated South The University of Arkansas Press 2003 160 pages 6″x9″ Paper: 1-55728–833-X (978-1-55728-833-2) Cloth: 1-55728-755-4 (978-1-55728-755-7) Charles F. Robinson II, Associate Professor of History, Vice Provost for Diversity, and Director of African American Studies program University of Arkansas In the tumultuous decades after the Civil War, as…