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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Michelle’s Great-Great-Great-Granddaddy—and Yours The Root 2009-10-08 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research Harvard University First Lady Michelle Obama’s maternal third-great-grandfather was a white man who fathered Melvinia Shields’ (her maternal third great-grandmother) son, Dolphus T. Shields, both slaves.…
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A Sad Case Of Miscegenation Valley Spirit (source: Pittsburgh Post) Franklin County, Virginia 1867-02-06 page 1, column 8 Source: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library The piece relates the story of a woman, who, after consenting to marry a returning white Union officer, had an affair with a black…
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President Johnson’s Message Staunton Spectator Staunton Virginia 1867-12-10 Column 1 Source: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library A full transcript of President Johnson’s recent address to both houses of Congress, in which he argues that the most pressing danger facing the nation is the attempt “to Africanize the half…
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The Founder of the American Protective League Says the Poor Whites Are Not to Blame For Racial Amalgamation.
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A problem that consistently confronts racist law makers in the question of defining who is “Negro” and who is “white.”
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“Passing” in a White Genre: Charles W. Chesnutt’s Negotiations of the Plantation Tradition in “The Conjure Woman” American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 Volume 27, Number 2 (Winter, 1995) pages 20-36 Robert C. Nowatzki When Charles Chesnutt’s collection of plantation tales The Conjure Woman was published in 1899, the immensely popular plantation tradition in fiction had become…
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The Afro-German project of Asoka Esuruoso and Philipp Khabo Köpsell AfrokanLife 2012-04-15 Arriving in the future, Stories of Home and Exile will be an interdisciplinary approach to positioning. As a collection of poetry, short stories and academic essays on identity written by Black Writers who regard Germany as their home, and those who regard it…