Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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Meet Edith Cumbo, Nation Builder Cumbo Family Website: Exploring Cumbo Family Roots and Branches across Generations 2016-07-24 Andre Kearns Washington, D.C. We celebrated our 2016 Cumbo Family Reunion last weekend July 15-17 in Williamsburg, Virginia. One of the reasons we chose Williamsburg was because Colonial Williamsburg features a historical figure – Edith Cumbo – who…
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A Mixed-Race, Mixed-Marriage Cumbo Family Website: Exploring Cumbo Family Roots and Branches across Generations 2016-05-06 Andre Kearns Washington, D.C. My great-great grandparents Edward Biggs and Florence Cumbo were both listed as Colored on their 1890 marriage license. So why am I classifying their union as a mixed marriage? It is because Edward Biggs was born…
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Painful but necessary: Why I stopped putting off the racism talk with my daughter CBC News 2016-07-01 Samantha Kemp-Jackson Toronto, Ontario, Canada Demonstrators stand in front of the East Baton Rouge Parish City Hall doors on Monday. (Reuters) Talk opens door to a world where ignorance is not bliss and racism must be confronted head-on…
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Pensive in Prague: Examining Identity Abroad, June 20th The Harvard Independent 2016-07-24 Gabby Aguirre This is the second in a series of summer blog posts where the author reflects on her time as a first-generation Latina studying abroad in Prague. You can find the first blog post here. The date is June 20th, and I’m…
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Banished from the tribe Inter-County Leader/Washburn County Register Cooperative-Owned Newspapers Serving Northwest Wisconsin 2016-07-25 Ed Emerson Gary King WEBSTER – Tony Ammann is the grandson of former longtime St. Croix Chippewa chief and traditional “midewiwin” spiritual leader Archie Mosay. His mother, Archie’s daughter, has Department of Interior papers certifying her blood quantum requirement to be…
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The Reality Of Imaginary Whiteness African American Intellectual Historical Society (AAIHS) 2016-07-24 Jennifer Patrice Sims, Adjunct Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, River Falls In the 1993 satirical musical comedy Robin Hood: Men In Tights, Dave Chappelle plays Ahchoo, the show stealing side kick to Cary Elwes’ Robin Hood. At the end of the movie,…
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Secrets of Nation Inside Story 2016-07-15 Ann McGrath, Professor of History, Director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory Middle ground: detail from Bartering for a Bride, or The Trappers Bride, by Alfred Jacob Miller, c. 1845. Wikipedia Commons The buried secrets of Australia’s frontier share features with…
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Going Against History? Institute for Advanced Study 2016 Ann McGrath, Professor of History, Director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory Locket images of Elias and Harriett, ca. 1826 (Courtesy of the Boudinot Family) Illicit love and intermarriage When leading church elders posted the wedding banns on the…
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The Real Rebels: A Review of Free State of Jones with Reflections on Lost Causes The Labor And Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) 2016-07-12 Mark Lause, Professor of History University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio I can feel a certain sympathy for people who get hoodwinked into fighting for a Lost Cause that could never be worthy…
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‘Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings’ reimagines difficult history The Chicago Tribune 2016-07-23 Meredith Maran “Until the lions have their own historians,” says an African proverb, “the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” The proverb offers one answer to a question that has long plagued writers, activists and historians. Who gets to…