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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Documentary Genocide: Families Surnames on Racial Hit List Richmond Times-Dispatch 2000-03-05 Peter Hardin, Former Washington Correspondent Long before the Indian woman gave birth to a baby boy, Virginia branded him with a race other than his own. The young Monacan Indian mother delivered her son at Lynchburg General Hospital in 1971. Proud of…
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Black Liverpool, Black America, and the Gendering of Diasporic Space Cultural Anthropology Volume 13, Issue 3 (August 1998) pages 291–325 DOI: 10.1525/can.1998.13.3.291 Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hunter College of the City University of New York The terms black Liverpool and black America, no less than the African diaspora, refer to racialized geographies of…
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“My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir,” by Mark Whitaker The Washington Post 2011-10-14 Jonathan Yardley, Critic Now in his mid-50s, Mark Whitaker has had an impressive journalistic career. Fresh out of Harvard in the late 1970s, he went to work at Newsweek and rose steadily through various assignments, eventually becoming its editor. In 2006…
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First woman among 17 elected to baseball Hall Associated Press 2006-02-27 TAMPA, Fla.—Effa Manley became the first woman elected to the baseball Hall of Fame when the former Newark Eagles executive was among 17 people from the Negro Leagues and pre-Negro Leagues chosen Monday by a special committee. “This is a historic day at the…
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Mixed Race Literature Intercultural Happenings: Thoughts and experiences towards creating a more culturally inclusive community Stonehill College, Easton, Massachusetts 2011-03-28 Each month, we highlight some of the reflective posts of our work study students. Unedited, they blog about observations, experiences and thoughts about diversity in their lives as seen through their lenses. Today’s post is…
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Voorhees author addresses growing up biracial South Jersery Sunne.ws 2011-10-17 Sean Patrick Murphy A Voorhees woman has written a book that she hopes will help parents of biracial children deal with unique challenges. “Color Blind” is life coach Tiffany Rae Reid’s attempt to provide a guide for parents, caregivers, and family members raising biracial…
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Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico (review) Southwestern Historical Quarterly Volume 115, Number 2, October 2011 E-ISSN: 1558-9560 Print ISSN: 0038-478X pages 214-215 William M. Clements, Professor of English Arkansas State University Shirley Boteler Mock, Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico, Norman: Oklahoma University Press,…
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The Rise of a New Consciousness: Early Euro-African Voices of Dissent in Colonial Angola Journal of Portuguese History Volume 5, Number 2, Winter 2007 15 pages ISSN: 1645-6432 Jacopo Corrado Events such as the 1820 Liberal Revolution in Portugal and the 1822 declaration of independence in Brazil appeared to the Creole elite based in the…
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The melungeons: A mystery people of east Tennessee Ethnos Volume 29, Issue 1-2 (1964) pages 43-48 DOI: 10.1080/00141844.1964.9980946 Paul G. Brewster Cookeville, Tennessee, USA The United States has long been called, and with some justification, “the melting-pot of nations” and the intermarriage of members of different races is a commonplace. The children born to such…