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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Brazil through the Eyes of William James: Diaries, Letters, and Drawings, 1865-1866 Harvard University Press November 2006 230 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 38 line drawings; 10 black and white halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780674021334 Maria Helena P.T. Machado, Professor of History University of São Paulo In 1865, twenty-three-year-old William James began his studies at the…
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Weeding Out the Riffraff The New York Times Home & Garden 2013-07-17 Penelope Green, Editor At Home With Sheila Bridges Sheila Bridges played the cancer card only once, when a state trooper stopped her for speeding on the Taconic Parkway. At the time, Ms. Bridges, the interior designer Time magazine once celebrated as one of…
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The story of Mary Musgrove (1700-1764), a Creek Indian-English woman struggling for success in colonial society, is an improbable one.
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Mildred Loving, Who Battled Ban on Mixed-Race Marriage, Dies at 68 The New York Times 2008-05-06 Douglas Martin Mildred Loving, a black woman whose anger over being banished from Virginia for marrying a white man led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling overturning state miscegenation laws, died on May 2 at her home in Central…
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She was a black woman, and she flouted convention. In an age that put ladies in the parlor and preferred them to be seen and not heard, she was nursing the British wounded, not in hospital wards with Florence Nightingale but on the Crimean battlefields—and off them, she was running a restaurant and hotel. She…
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Tragic Mulatto Girl Wonder: The paradoxical life of Philippa Duke Schuyler QBR The Black Book Review February/March 1996 Lise Funderburg Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler. By Kathryn Talalay. Illustrated. 317 pp. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509608-8. As a child prodigy, pianist and composer, Philippa Duke Schuyler incited both…
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Prodigy and Prejudice The New York Times 1995-12-10 Phyllis Rose Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler. By Kathryn Talalay. Illustrated. 317 pp. New York: Oxford University Press This enthralling, heartbreaking book restores to attention Philippa Schuyler, child prodigy of the 1930’s, pianist, composer, Harlem’s Mozart, “the Shirley Temple of American Negroes.”…
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Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing the Borders of Region and Race University of Illinois Press 2014 288 pages 6.125 x 9.25 in. 5 black & white photographs Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-03811-2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07959-7 Wanda A. Hendricks, Associate Professor of History University of South Carolina The biography of a key activist of the Progressive Era Born shortly…