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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Category: Biography
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What if the creation story of anthropology isn’t exclusively about white men classifying people as primitive?
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Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753-1833 Oxford University Press 2002-12-12 248 pages 9.04 x 6.84 x 0.9 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-0195157178 DOI: 10.1093/0195157176.001.0001 John Saillant, Professor of English and History Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan In the second half of the eighteenth century, British and American men and women…
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CAP recognizes Women’s History Month with a profile of aviator and civil rights pioneer Willa Brown.
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Aaron’s Book The Devil’s Tale: Dispatches from the Davin M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 2021-07-27 Blake Hill-Saya Above: Portrait in oils of Dr. Aaron McDuffie Moore painted by his daughter Lyda Moore Merrick. Located in the North Carolina Collection, Stanford L. Warren Branch of the Durham County Library,…
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The great scientific crusader who debunked the biological myths about race AlterNet 2021-08-05 Prabir Purkayastha/Globetrotter On July 4, Richard Lewontin, the dialectical biologist, Marxist and activist, died at the age of 92, just three days after the death of his wife of more than 70 years, Mary Jane. He was one of the founders of…
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In 1785, he was one of the first, if not the first, African-Americans to be ordained into the Congregational Church in the whole United States and led a mostly white congregation for over 30 years.
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The First Black Pastor in American History
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The Washington Post talked to Terrell and Murray about what it was like to work on “The Personal Librarian” when so much of the world was falling apart.
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J.P. Morgan’s librarian hid her race. A novel imagines the toll on her. The Christian Science Monitor 2021-06-29 Heller McAlpin, Correspondent Library of Congress Belle da Costa Greene, shown in 1929, curated rare books for mogul J.P. Morgan. She was the first director of the Morgan Library. Some books leave you wondering why the author…
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A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white in order to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict, and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray.