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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Lecture: What Would Be the Story of Alice and Leonard Rhinelander Today? UC Davis Law Review University of California School of Law Volume 46, Number 4, April 2013 pages 939-960 Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Professor of Law University of Iowa On November 8, 2011, I presented this lecture as part of…
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Self-Writing, Literary Traditions, and Post-Emancipation Identity: The Case of Mary Seacole Biography Volume 23, Number 2, Spring 2000 pages 309-331 DOI: 10.1353/bio.2000.0009 Evelyn J. Hawthorne, Professor of English Howard University, Washington, D.C. “ . . . unless I am allowed to tell the story of my life in my own way, I cannot tell it…
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In new book, two Kentucky families discover surprising racial histories Lexington Herald-Leader Lexington, Kentucky 2011-05-15 Linda B. Blackford Freda Spencer Goble of Paintsville knew that she hailed from a proud and hardworking clan that carved a life out of the hills and hollows of frontier Johnson County. What she didn’t know was that one of…
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First Person: ‘We’ve made diversity our official civic religion in Leicester’ This is Leicestershire Leicester Mercury 2013-03-27 Ben Ravilious I was delighted to learn the city mayor has given the green light to Leicester’s City of Culture bid. However, I already have nagging doubts about the direction this might be taking. It’s the flogging of…
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Census 2011: Leicester ‘most ethnically diverse’ in region BBC News 2012-12-11 Leicester is one of the most diverse cities in the UK and the largest in the East Midlands, the latest census shows. Information from the 2011 survey shows there are 329,000 people living in the city, 24,000 more than in Nottingham, while 250,000 live…