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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What few outside his family and close friends knew at that time: Taffy Abel was Native American – the first Indigenous athlete to carry the flag at the Olympics. Within days he’d become the first Native American to win a medal in winter games history.
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The story of this brilliant, sometime forgotten, underrated composer can date back to the ugly history of racial discrimination in the United States. His family’s sojourner led this brilliant man to work and strive in his chosen profession. It was that sacrifice of his father that made that opportunity possible.
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“It really gave me an access point into the history of my family that otherwise would have remained hidden,” the first-time director says
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Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), who had an English mother and Sierra Leone Creole father, gained considerable respect in England during his short life, including early support from Edward Elgar. In part because of the success of The Song of Hiawatha, a trilogy of cantatas, Coleridge-Taylor made three tours to the United States and was received in 1904…
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Seattle-based Coast Guard cutter’s journey through the Arctic: No ‘ice liberty’ in changing waters The Seattle Times 2021-10-20 Hal Bernton, Staff Reporter The Coast Guard Cutter Healy in the iceberg-laden waters of Baffin Bay near Umanak Fjord, Greenland, on Sept. 24. Healy was designed to support a wide range of Arctic research activities with more…
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An Education for All: Teacher Educated Her Hampton Students `for Eternity’ The Daily Press Norfolk, Virginia 1995-02-07 Felice Belman Mary S. Peake HAMPTON — Mary S. Peake was so devoted to her students that she taught them even when it was illegal to do so. She was so dedicated to education that, even after the…
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North End Business Association announces it will commission a commemorative art piece