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 happened to the British children born to black GIs? BBC News 2022-01-29 Eldridge says he would have loved to have met his father MARTIN GILES/BBC Eighty years ago, US soldiers began arriving in the UK to help in the fight against Hitler’s Nazi Germany. In a small sleepy village in Suffolk, life was about…
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Unsung hero: As a pioneering attorney and judge, Elreta Alexander-Ralston left indelible mark on civil rights, criminal justice reform The News & Record Greensboro, North Carolina 2021-12-19 Nancy McLaughlin Historian and UNCG professor Virginia Summey’s biography of Elreta Melton Alexander-Ralston goes back to the history-making judge’s childhood, including her years at Dudley High School and…
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Pearl Hobson was among a number of African-American performers who left the United States in the 1900s to somewhat escape racism.
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“For the love of Jesus Christ, she had become the humble and devout servant of the slaves.”
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Rebecca Hall shares her Brief But Spectacular take on “Passing” and on her own racial identity as part of our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
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“My reasons for writing began with my father, and he remains the elusive character I search for, opening one door after another.”
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She ran boardinghouses whose lodgers included members of New York’s elite, raised money for an orphan asylum and was active in the abolitionists’ cause.
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As a dancer and choreographer, she sought to represent a broad range of ethnic groups, but audiences often sexualized and exoticized her by focusing on her mixed race.