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 Evolution of My Mixed Race Identity NASPA Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education 2016-07-11 Jeanette Snider, Assistant Director in the Undergraduate Program Robert H. Smith School of Business University of Maryland I recently took an intergroup dialogue-training course for administrators and graduate students interested in leading a related course offered at my university. We…
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Dido Belle: Britain’s first black aristocrat The Telegraph 2016-07-06 Nisha Lilia Diu Amma Asante’s award-winning film Belle arrives on Netflix today. In this feature, first published in June 2014, Nisha Lilia Diu reveals the true story that inspired it The amazing thing about Dido Elizabeth Belle is not that she was mixed-race. Who knows how…
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FOR nearly 20 years, my great-great-great-grandfather’s portrait has watched over me from my red dining room wall. With his high collar, ruffled cravat and black waistcoat, Samuel Fales, 1775-1848, is the very image of the upstanding 19th-century New England gentleman.
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Biography: ‘The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire,’ by Karl Jacoby The Dallas Morning News 2016-06-24 Karen M. Thomas, Professor of Journalism Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas From all accounts, Guillermo Enrique Eliseo commanded attention. The elegantly dressed Mexican-born Wall Street baron in Gilded Age Manhattan was known…
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Early black lawyer, wife endured bigotry Minneapolis Star-Tribune 2016-02-13 Curt Brown Nellie and William Francis were doing so well in 1924 they decided to move four miles southwest in St. Paul — leaving their Rondo neighborhood for a house in the Groveland Park area near the Mississippi River. The 1920 census listed the couple, married…
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The stories of the ‘War Brides’ of Japan need to be told International Examiner Seattle, Washington 2016-07-21 Yayoi Lena Winfrey One day in the early 1980s, my Japanese mother took my sister and me to an International District gift shop. A middle-aged Japanese American man working there glanced briefly towards us, before turning away apathetically.…
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A JewAsian July 4th The ProsenPeople: Exploring the world of Jewish Literature Jewish Book Council 2016-07-22 Helen Kiyong Kim, Associate Professor of Sociology Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington Noah Samuel Leavitt, Associate Dean of Students Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington Earlier this week, Helen Kiyong Kim and Noah Leavitt determined the three takeaways on raising…
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Across the Border The Nation 2016-07-21 Michael A. Elliott, Professor of English Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia William Henry Ellis, (Photo courtesy of Fanny Johnson-Griffin) A new biography of William Henry Ellis reminds us how much we still don’t know about the elusive history of racial subterfuge in America. When, in 1912, James Weldon Johnson published…