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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She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story Balzer + Bray (an imprint of HarperCollins) 2010-10-19 32 pages 8.5 in (w) x 11 in (h) x 0.25 in (d) Hardcover ISBN: 9780061349201 eBook ISBN: 9780062184801 Audrey Vernick Illustrated by Don Tate Effa always loved baseball. As a young woman, she would go to Yankee Stadium just…
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Preview of DREAM OF THE WATER CHILDREN by Wendy Cheng 2Leaf Press: A Small Press with Big Ideas! New York, New York 2016-01-18 Wendy Cheng, Assistant Professor School of Social Transformation Faculty Arizona State University A Black-Japanese Amerasian reflects on life in the present, with the traces of wars and their aftermaths. In Dream of…
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Queen of the Negro Leagues: Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles Scarecrow Press (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield) January 1998 298 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-57886-001-2 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4617-0708-0 James Overmyer, Member Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research The first woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, there was no…
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When Ancestry Search Led To Escaped Slave: ‘All I Could Do Was Weep’ Fresh Air (From WHYY in Philadelphia) National Public Radio 2016-01-18 Terry Gross, Host When she was in fifth grade, Regina Mason received a school assignment that would change her life: to connect with her country of origin. That night, she went home…
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Maud Sulter The Herald Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom 2008-03-21 Artist and writer; Born September 19, 1960; Died February 27, 2008. MAUD Sulter, who has died after a long illness aged 47, was an extraordinarily gifted visual artist, writer, playwright and cultural historian. She was born in Glasgow, of Scots and Ghanaian descent: in her poem…
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Remembering Julian Bond (1940-2015) Politico 2015-12-29 Josh Zeitz Getty For many Americans, Julian Bond, who died in August at age 75, was quite literally the voice of the modern civil rights movement. In the early 1960s, when he served as communications director for the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and in later years, as…
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Tiger Woods at 40: The 14-time major champion’s legacy BBC Sport 2015-12-30 Iain Carter, Golf Correspondent Masters 2001: Woods seals ‘Tiger’ slam Imagine Earl Woods choosing to put a baseball bat rather than a golf club into the hands of young Eldrick, his toddler son. How different would golf be if Tiger Woods, who turns…
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‘True Detective’ Helmer Cary Fukunaga Teams With John Legend For Pulitzer Winner ‘The Black Count’ Deadline Hollywood 2014-04-28 Dominic Patten EXCLUSIVE: On fire since the success of HBO‘s True Detective this year, director Cary Fukunaga has lined up his next project I’ve learned. Teaming with John Legend and his Get Lifted Film Co. partner Mike…
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The many faces of Frederick Douglass Democrat and Chronicle Rochester, New York 2015-12-25 Jim Memmott, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English University of Rochester, Rochester, New York Portrait of Frederick Douglass taken November 3, 1882 by John Howe Kent, 24 State Street, Rochester, New York (Photo: Courtesy of the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and…