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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The Washington Post talked to Terrell and Murray about what it was like to work on “The Personal Librarian” when so much of the world was falling apart.
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J.P. Morgan’s librarian hid her race. A novel imagines the toll on her. The Christian Science Monitor 2021-06-29 Heller McAlpin, Correspondent Library of Congress Belle da Costa Greene, shown in 1929, curated rare books for mogul J.P. Morgan. She was the first director of the Morgan Library. Some books leave you wondering why the author…
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A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white in order to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict, and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray.
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The author of “Speak, Okinawa” talks about learning her family history, writing from guilt, and questioning her father’s values.
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Harry Pace started the first major Black-owned record label in the U.S., but his achievements went mostly unnoticed until recently, when his descendants uncovered his secret history.
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Black Swan Blues: The Hard Rise & Brutal Fall of America’s First Black-owned Record Label PlanetSlade.com 2021-07-03 190 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1527296978 6 x 0.43 x 9 inches Paul Slade Forty years before Motown, there was Black Swan. Created by a young Black songwriter called Harry Pace, this pioneering 1920s blues label gave 14 million…
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But in the past year, off the track [Lewis] Hamilton has started to find a voice about his racial identity. He has been taking a knee; raising a clenched fist. Long dormant concerns about racism and discrimination have been rudely awakened following the Black Lives Matter uprisings. In the process, Hamilton has transformed the way…
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Study: Let’s Replace ‘Ancestry’ in Forensics With Something More Accurate North Carolina State University News Raleigh, North Carolina 2021-07-14 Matt Shipman, Research Communications Lead A new study finds forensics researchers use terms related to ancestry and race in inconsistent ways, and calls for the discipline to adopt a new approach to better account for both…
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Based on our findings we propose replacing the assumption of continental ancestry with a population structure approach that combines microevolutionary and cultural factors with historical events in the examination of population affinity.