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  • COLORED VASSAR GIRL. The Saint Paul Globe Sunday, 1897-09-05 page 21, column 7 People at Poughkeepsie Thought Miss Hemmings Was a Spaniard. Anita Florence Hemmings, the Boston girl who has stirred up such a sensation by daring to complete a course at exclusive Vassar when she new that there was negro blood in her veins,…

  • The penalties of miscegenation Patterns of Prejudice Volume 6, Issue 3, 1972 pages 10-12 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.1972.9969062 Mary Dines (1927-2011) Paragraph 24 of “Commonwealth Citizens: Control after Entry: Immigration Rules” (Cmd. 4295) reads: “If a man who was admitted as a visitor or student, or in some other temporary capacity, marries a woman who is a…

  • Visible and Invisible Hapa Exhibit at Japanese American Museum San Jose Hapa Mama: Asian Fusion Family and Food 2016-05-20 Grace Hwang Lynch Bay Area people… there’s an exhibit about the history of hapa Japanese Americans at the Japanese American Museum in San Jose. Titled Visible and Invisible, it’s similar to the exhibit of the same…

  • Uncovering the story of a grandmother’s racial passing and its effect on following generations.

  • Hybrid by Robert Wood Mascara Literary Review 2015-10-04 Robert Wood Robert Wood grew up in a multicultural household in Perth. He holds degrees from the Australian National University and the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a National Undergraduate Scholar and a Benjamin Franklin Fellow respectively. He has edited for Margaret River Press, Wild Dingo…

  • “White Enough to Pass”: Uncovering the story of John Wesley Gibson underbelly: From the Deepest Corners of the Maryland Historical Society Library 2016-01-21 Excerpt from William Still’s 1872 book, The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, & c., Narrating the Hardships Hair-breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in their Efforts…

  • Book Launch: A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs The Powerhouse Arena 37 Main Street Brooklyn, New York 11201 Telephone: 718.666.3049 Wednesday 2016-06-15, 19:00-21:00 EDT (Local Time) Focusing on individuals and their experiences, Allyson Hobbs examines how racial passing became both a strategy for survival and an avenue…

  • My thesis examines the similar intersections of hybridity that are embodied in both representations of monstrosity and the politics surrounding people of mixed-race.

  • The Myth of Race: The Troubling and Persistence of an Unscientific Idea by Robert Wald Sussman (review) Journal of Social History Volume 49, Number 3, Spring 2016 pages 740-741 Robert J. Cottrol, Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law and Professor of History and Sociology George Washington University The Myth of Race: The Troubling and…

  • Karin Tanabe: THE GILDED YEARS Busboys and Poets Langston Room 2021 14th Street, NW (14 & V Street, NW) Washington, D.C. 20009 Tuesday, 2016-06-14, 18:30-20:30 EDT (Local Time) Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets 14th & V welcomes Karin Tanabe to present the new book “The Gilded Years.” A Politico journalist turned novelist, Tanabe…