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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World-renowned hip-hop artist Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité’s vivid and intimate journey through his own and his family’s history―from South Carolina slavery to twenty-first-century Sweden.
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Joseph Jenkins Roberts: A Love for Liberia StMU Research Scholars: Featuring Scholarly Research, Writing, and Media at St. Mary’s University St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas 2020-02-17 Antonio Holverstott Portrait of Joseph Jenkins Roberts taken by Augustus McCarthy circa 1840-1860 | Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. In 1846, the governor of the African colony of Liberia,…
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Arturo Schomburg’s experiences as an Afro Puerto Rican at the turn of the century influenced his approach to rescuing and preserving Black history.
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The Book Keeper: A Memoir of Race, Love, and Legacy Swallow Press (an imprint of Ohio University Press) January 2020 256 pages 5½ × 8½ in. Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8040-1221-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8040-4106-5 Julia McKenzie Munemo In a memoir that’s equal parts love story, investigation, and racial reckoning, Munemo unravels and interrogates her whiteness, a shocking…
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Librarian Louise Butler Walker ’35 took desperate measures to survive in a racist society.
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Descendant of Alex Manly talks about modern impact of 1898 Massacre WECT News 6 Wilmington, North Carolina 2021-11-10 Mara McJilton, Multimedia Journalist Alex Manly was the owner of The Daily Record newspaper in 1898 when it was burned down by white supremacists WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) –Alex Manly was the owner of The Daily Record newspaper…
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Mitski Miyawaki, who performs with her band under her first name, grew up in a biracial, multicultural household. During her childhood, Mitski lived in Japan, Malaysia, China, Turkey and the Democratic Republic of Congo. But it wasn’t until she returned to the U.S. that she had a racial designation imposed on her.