Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- Mixed Roots: Writers on Multiracial Identity and Both/And Belonging
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about
Category: Biography
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Early in her career she created brightly colored scenes of black middle-class domestic life. Her later work was increasingly personal and experimental.
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Dr. Moore was one-third of the mighty “Triumvirate” alongside John Merrick and C. C. Spaulding, credited with establishing Durham as the capital of the African American middle class in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and founding Durham’s famed Black Wall Street.
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“Say I’m Dead” is the true story of family secrets, separation, courage, and trans-formation through five generations of interracial relationships.
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Life was good for most of Jacksonville’s residents, but not for the Westmorelands, as segregation was strictly enforced and though Dona claimed Latin heritage throughout her personal and professional career, Eunice Westmoreland was negro.
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My whole life, my mother told me, ‘Always remember — you’re a Madison. You come from African slaves and a president.’
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The origin of America’s first surviving set of identical quadruplets.
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In “The Other Madisons,” Bettye Kearse—a descendant of an enslaved cook and, according to oral tradition, President James Madison—shares her family story and explores the issues of legacy, race, and the powerful consequences of telling the whole truth.
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She was one of a group of black women mathematicians at NASA and its predecessor who were celebrated in the 2016 movie “Hidden Figures.”