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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See First Photos of Matthew McConaughey in The Free State of Jones Time 2015-04-21 Sarah Begley, Culture Reporter Matthew McConaughey stars in The Free State of Jones (Murray Close) He’s basically your Civil War boyfriend For an actor, there’s no better awards bait than an appearance-transforming role in a biographical war movie. World, meet The…
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First Look at Matthew McConaughey in The Free State of Jones ComingSoon.net 2015-03-09 Max Evry Motion picture and television studio STX Entertainment has begun principal photography on the theatrical feature The Free State of Jones in and around New Orleans, Louisiana, it was announced by Adam Fogelson, Chairman of STX Entertainment’s Motion Picture Group. The…
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The Life and Death of Davis Knight after State vs. Knight (1948) Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2009-04-08 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Davis Knight, the great-grandson of the infamous “Free State of Jones” guerrilla, Newt Knight, became the centerpiece of his own drama some 25 years…
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Matthew McConaughey & Gary Ross Mount Civil War Saga; Bob Simonds’ STX In Talks To Finance Deadline Hollywood 2014-11-05 Mike Fleming Jr., Film Editor Anita Busch, Film Editor EXCLUSIVE: Matthew McConaughey and writer-director Gary Ross are the catalysts for a project called Free State Of Jones, which is getting some serious attention from STX Entertainment,…
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Chronicling Mississippi’s ‘Church Mothers,’ and Getting to Know a Grandmother The New York Times 2014-08-29 Samuel G. Freedman, Professor of Journalism Columbia University, New York SUMNER, Miss. — Toward noon on a torrid Monday in the Mississippi Delta, Alysia Burton Steele drove down Highway 49, looking for the crossroads near the Old Antioch Baptist Church.…
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A Mother’s Love: Stories of Struggle, Sacrifice, Love and Wisdom The Root 2014-05-11 Breanna Edwards Journalist Alysia Steele’s explores the “jewels in the Mississippi Delta” who held it down for their families through decades of strife and racial struggle. It’s Mother’s Day weekend, and many of us may feel the keen absence of the women…
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Breath of Freedom The Smithsonian Channel Premieres Monday, 2014-02-17 20:00 EST Narrated by Cuba Gooding Jr. They fought to liberate Germany from Nazi rule, as racism reached unfathomable levels. Their fight would continue back home on American soil. This is the story of the one-million-plus African Americans who fought in World War II. Discover their…
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Ellisville, Miss.—(AP)—A young veteran who served in the navy as a white man and later married a white woman has been convicted of miscegenation and sentenced to five years in prison.
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TO: Honorable Paul B. Johnson, Governor; Honorable Carroll Gartin, Lieutenant Governor FROM: Director, Sovereignty Commission SUBJECT: Louvenia Knight (Williamson) and her two sons, Edgar Williamson, born May 1, 1954, and Randy Williamson, born October 10, 1955
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Mississippi rebel’s descendants seek family facts The Jackson Sun 2013-07-04 Laura Tillman, Associated Press SOSO, MISS. — One hundred and fifty years have passed since the Civil War, but in Mississippi, the descendants of a legendary rebel are still separating the facts of his life from fiction. Newton Knight, a white farmer from central Mississippi’s…