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 recent discovery of Richard Greener’s papers could fill some of the gaps in his biography.
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Alexander Saxton, Historian and Novelist, Dies at 93 The New York Times 2012-09-01 Paul Vitello Alexander Saxton, who would go on to become a prominent historian of race in America, summed himself up in a blurb on the dust jacket of his first novel, “Grand Crossing,” published when he was 24. “At various times,” he…
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In 1976, Kentucky state legislator Mae Street Kidd successfully sponsored a resolution ratifying the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution. It was fitting that a black woman should initiate the state’s formal repudiation of slavery; that it was Mrs. Kidd was all the more appropriate.
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Henry Louis Rey, Spiritualism, and Creoles of Color in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans University of New Orleans 2009-12-20 72 pages Melissa Daggett A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of New Orleans in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History This thesis is a biography of…
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Cole Porter Scores An Interracial Couple’s Highs And Lows National Public Radio All Things Considered Music: Mom and Dad’s Record Collection 2012-08-30 NPR Staff As summer winds down, All Things Considered is winding down its series “Music: Mom and Dad’s Record Collection.” For the past few months, the show has asked listeners to tell their…
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The son of an Irish American father and Japanese mother, Murphy-Shigematsu has devoted his life to understanding himself as a product of his diverse roots. Across twelve chapters, his reflections are interspersed among profiles of others of biracial and mixed ethnicity and accounts of their journeys to answer a seemingly simple question: Who am I?
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UCSB Ph.D. Alum Overcomes Odds and Pays Back With History Grad Parent Award UCSB GradPost University of California, Santa Barbara 2012-07-20 Patricia Marroquin, Guest Editor-in-Chief Dr. Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly believes strongly in paying back and paying forward. When she was a History Ph.D. student at UCSB just a few years ago, “graduate school was quite difficult…
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Lift Up Thy Voice: The Grimke Family’s Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders Penguin Press December 2002 432 pages Paperback ISBN 9780142001035 Mark Perry A story of race consciousness and the fight for equality told through the lives of one extraordinary American family In the late 1820s Sarah and Angelina Grimké traded their elite…
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Biography of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967 Edwin Mellen Press 2002 248 pages ISBN 10: 0-7734-7088-3; ISBN 13: 978-0-7734-7088-0 John Chandler Griffin, Distinguished Professor Emeritus University of South Carolina, Lancaster This comprehensive biography of writer Jean Toomer, known as the Herald of the Harlem Renaissance, uses previously untapped sources, including lengthy meetings with Toomer’s widow…
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The Passing of Anatole Broyard Chapter in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man Random House 1997 256 pages ISBN: 978-0-679-77666-6 Chapter pages: 180-214 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research Harvard University In 1982, an investment banker…