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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New Orleans After the Civil War: Race, Politics, and a New Birth of Freedom by Justin A. Nystrom (review) Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Volume 111, Number 4, Autumn 2013 pages 617-619 DOI: 10.1353/khs.2014.0023 Aaron Astor, Associate professor of History Maryville College, Maryville, Tennessee Nystrom, Justin A., New Orleans after the Civil War: Race,…
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Cheerios revisits mixed-race family for Super Bowl spot Today 2014-01-29 Ben Popken, Senior Staff Writer/Editor For its first ever Super Bowl ad, Cheerios is telling racists to “stick a spoon in it.” General Mills is portraying in its big game spot the same mixed-race family that drew so many hateful remarks on YouTube last May…
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Even though they lived under Jim Crow, they thrived: A Community of Free People—The Winton Triangle Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum 1901 Fort Place, Southeast Washington, D.C., 20020 202-633-4820 Saturday, 2014-02-01, 14:00-16:00 EST (Local Time) Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director Chowan Discovery Group For over 260 years, the Winton Triangle’s mixed-race landowning community successfully navigated slavery,…
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We often think of Reconstruction as an unfinished revolution. Justin A. Nystrom’s original study of the aftermath of emancipation in New Orleans takes a different perspective, arguing that the politics of the era were less of a binary struggle over political supremacy and morality than they were about a quest for stability in a world…
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New Rabbi at Manhattan’s Central Synagogue ‘a Pioneer’ The Wall Street Journal 2014-01-17 Sophia Hollander Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl Is Daughter of a Korean Buddhist Immigrant and an American Jew Growing up as the daughter of a Korean Buddhist immigrant and an American Jew in Tacoma, Wash., Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl said some family members…
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The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930 [Joseph Review] MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Published online: 2014-01-26 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlt079 Ralina L. Joseph, Associate Professor of Communication University of Washington The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930. Jolie A. Sheffer. New Brunswick…
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Dark skin, blue eyes: Genes paint a picture of 7,000-year-old European NBC News 2014-01-26 Alan Boyle, Science Editor A 7,000-year-old man whose bones were left behind in a Spanish cave had the dark skin of an African, but the blue eyes of a Scandinavian. He was a hunter-gatherer who ate a low-starch diet and couldn’t…