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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Kelly Curtis is first Black athlete to represent Team USA in skeleton
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Historians argue Roper’s story could have helped end US slavery earlier but supporters turned on him
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A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery University of North Carolina Press September 2011 (originally published in 1840) 50 pages 6 x 9, 4 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-6965-9 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8078-6966-6 Moses Roper (c1815-1891) The Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper can be read as…
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‘I am not a beggar’: Moses Roper, Black Witness and the Lost Opportunity of British Abolitionism Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies Published online 2022-02-09 DOI: 10.1080/0144039X.2022.2027656 Fionnghuala Sweeney, Reader in American and Black Atlantic Literatures Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Bruce E. Baker, Historian Paxton, Scotland, United Kingdom…
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In a new memoir, the writer describes how she was long excluded from the halls of literary power, and how she finally broke in.
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“I am an American citizen and by God, we all have inalienable rights and wherever those rights are tampered with, there is nothing left to do but fight…and I fight. How many people do you think there are in this country who do not have mixed blood, there’s very few if any, what makes us…
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Black and German: news anchor Jana Pareigis has spent her entire life being asked about her skin color and afro hair. What is it like to be Black in Germany? What needs to change?
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From the bestselling and Booker Prize-winning author of “Girl, Woman,” Other, Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir of her own life and writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and activism