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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The legend of Lone Star Dietz: Redskins namesake, coach — and possible impostor? The Washington Post 2013-11-06 Richard Leiby Reading, Pa. — Here lies the celebrated Lone Star Dietz — in a donated cemetery plot, aside a back road, under a drooping evergreen. A simple marker, paid for by friends, bears only one word that…
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Black Beethoven and the Racial Politics of Music History Transition Issue 112, 2013 pages 117-130 DOI: 10.1353/tra.2013.0056 Nicholas T. Rinehart Harvard University Nicholas T. Rinehart debunks theories of Beethoven’s blackness and calls for a reimagining of the classical canon. The Question Was Beethoven Black? He surely wasn’t, but some insist otherwise. The question is not…
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Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea [new edition] Constable & Robinson 2006-11-16 288 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781845294977 Jane Robinson The ‘Greatest Black Briton in History’ triumphed over the Crimea and Victorian England. She became an independent ‘doctress’ combining the herbal remedies of her African ancestry with sound surgical…
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Racial Identity and the Shadow of Jim Crow in the Black Community (1)ne Drop Project 2013-10-07 Kimberly Bernita Ross Michigan State University My grandmother Bernice was born in New Orleans in 1918 to a Black mother and a White father at a time when interracial marriage was illegal. Her mother, Roseanna, a maid in a…
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New recognition for first black U.S. doctor with medical degree American Medical News 2010-11-08 Kevin B. O’Reilly Dr. James McCune Smith’s descendants unveiled a new headstone in a ceremony to commemorate his achievements as a physician, essayist and abolitionist. The New York City burial site of the nation’s first black medical degree-holder received a new…
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What’s Purity Got to Do with It? Searching Family History and Genealogy Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Othmer Library Saturday, 2013-12-07, 15:00-18:00 EST (Local Time) Part Two of the reading series Quantifying Bloodlines How do stories help us to understand the ways in which we dissect lineage? Bring in your own family tree,…
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Bringing Black History Home CUNY Newswire The City University of New York 2011-04-15 Antoinette Martignoni, left, and her granddaughter Greta Blau hold a family Bible that contains the name of their ancestor, Dr. James McCune Smith, the nation’s first African American physician at Martignoni’s home in Fairfield, Conn., Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)…
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In‐and‐out‐of‐race: The story of Noble Johnson Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory Volume 15, Issue 1, 2005 pages 33-52 DOI: 10.1080/07407700508571487 Jane Gaines, Professor of Film Studies Columbia University School of the Arts Noble Johnson’s story is a very American story, a story more typical than we have historically wanted to admit. It…
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Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance HarperCollins Publishers 2013-09-10 544 pages Trimsize: 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 9780060882389; ISBN10: 0060882387 eBook ISBN: 9780062199126; ISBN10: 0062199129 Carla Kaplan, Stanton W. and Elisabeth K. Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts New York City in the Jazz Age was…
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Penny Marshall Directing A Dennis Rodman Documentary + Effa Manley Project In Development Shadow and Act: On Cinema of the African Diaspora 2012-09-25 Courtney Singer Lately, she has been working on a documentary about the basketball player Dennis Rodman, some of which she has been shooting via Skype. That came up because a) Ms. Marshall…