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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On Creoles, Colorism and Confronting our Triggers Black and Blewish 2016-02-13 TaRessa Stovall By now everyone with media access knows of (and likely has an opinion about) Beyoncé’s new “Formation” video and Super Bowl halftime performance. She dropped the video on an otherwise slow news Saturday, February 6, and on the very next day, she…
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SPEECH OF Hon. Samuel S. Cox. ON MISCEGENATION AND SLAVERY: The Daily Ohio Statesman Columbus, Ohio 1864-02-23 Delivered in the House of Congress on Wednesday, February 17th, 1864. The Bill, To establish a Bureau of Freedmen’s Affairs, being under consideration, Mr. Cox had the floor and proceeded to speak. He first discussed some constitutional points that…
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Charles W. Chesnutt’s Stenographic Realism MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 40, Number 4, Winter 2015 pages 48-68 Mark Sussman Hunter College, City University of New York Speaking before a meeting of the Ohio Stenographer’s Association on 28 August 1889, Charles W. Chesnutt declared: “The invention of phonography deserves to rank, and does rank,…
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MSNBC severs ties with Melissa Harris-Perry after host’s critical email The Washington Post 2016-02-28 Paul Farhi, Media Reporter MSNBC has parted ways with host Melissa Harris-Perry after she complained about preemptions of her weekend program and implied that there was a racial aspect to the cable-news network’s treatment, insiders at MSNBC said. Harris-Perry refused to…
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Adebe DeRango-Adem was recently hailed as a young Canadian author to watch by Canada’s poet laureate, George Elliott Clarke. She is a poet and doctoral student in English literature at University of Pennsylvania.
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The Convention for the reconstruction of Louisiana, now in session at New Orleans, is one of the smallest affairs in the way of brains ever before assembled in the United States. It is composed of cooks, boot-blacks, field-hands, bureau officers, and men unknown five miles from their place of residence.
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Melissa Harris-Perry Walks Off Her MSNBC Show After Pre-Emptions The New York Times 2016-02-26 John Koblin, Television Reporter Melissa Harris-Perry said she had received no word about whether her MSNBC show had been canceled. Credit Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Melissa Harris-Perry said she was refusing to go on the MSNBC show she hosts…
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Nella Larsen Reconsidered: The Trouble with Desire in Quicksand and Passing MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Volume 41, Number 1, Negotiating Trauma and Affect (Spring 2016) Published 2016-01-25 pages 165-192 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlv083 Rafael Walker, Assistant Professor of English Baruch College, City University of New York Winner of MLA’s 2016 Crompton-Noll Award for Best…