Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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The Faux-Enlightened Free State of Jones The Atlantic 2016-06-28 Vann R. Newkirk II STX Productions Matthew McConaughey’s new movie is a predictable but instructive journey of white saviorhood. “Somehow, some way, and some time, everybody is somebody else’s nigger,” is an actual quote that happens around midway through Free State of Jones. Uttered by Matthew…
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Black and White in the Free State of Jones Process: A Blog For American History 2016-07-14 Nina Silber, Professor of History Boston University I’ll confess: I was fully prepared to be disappointed with the recently-released Free State of Jones. Not out of any disrespect toward the excellent historical scholarship behind the film, including Victoria Bynum’s…
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Making Jokes and History in An Octoroon African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) 2016-06-25 Christopher Bonner, Assistant Professor of History University of Maryland Last weekend I saw a performance of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins‘ play An Octoroon, which is a reimagining of Dion Boucicault’s The Octoroon, a popular 1859 melodrama set on a Louisiana plantation. There is…
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A Citizen of Fine Spirit William Mitchell Magazine Volume 18, Issue 2, Fall 2000 pages 2-6 Douglas R. Heidenreich, Emeritus Professor of Law Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Saint Paul, Minnesota Minnesota Historical Society William T. Francis was (1869-1929), by most measures, the most successful of the early African American alumni of William Mitchell College…