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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In Census, Young Americans Increasingly Diverse The New York Times 2011-02-04 Sabrina Tabernise WASHINGTON — Demographers sifting through new population counts released on Thursday by the Census Bureau say the data bring a pattern into sharper focus: Young Americans are far less white than older generations, a shift that demographers say creates a culture gap…
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The “One Drop Rule” revisited: Mary Ann McQueen of Montgomery County, North Carolina Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2010-12-21 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Many people, perhaps most, think of “race” as an objective reality. Historically, however, racial categorization has been unstable, contradictory, and arbitrary. Consider the…
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“White Negroes” in Segregated Mississippi: Miscegenation, Racial Identity, and the Law The Journal of Southern History Volume 64, Number 2 (May, 1998) pages 247-276 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Not until David L. Cohn returned to his native Mississippi after an absence of two decades did he understand the…
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The Physical Form of Mississippi Negroes American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 16, Issue 2 (October/December 1931) pages 193–201 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330160213 Melville J. Herskovits (1895-1963), Professor of Anthropology and African Studies Northwestern University Vivian K. Cameron Harriet Smith During the years 1923 to 1927, research was carried on in an attempt to investigate the physical…
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Rachel Knight: Slave, White Man’s Mistress and Mother to a Movement Johnathon Odell: Discovering Our Stories 2010-09-20 John Odell Rachel’s Children I can’t help but think of the Old Testament Abraham when I hear stories about Newt Knight. Both men sired children by a wife and a slave. In Newt’s case it was Serena and…
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White Negro Communities: Too White To Be Black And Too Black To Be White Johnathon Odell: Discovering Our Stories 2010-07-25 John Odell Yvonne Bivins had to make a choice very few Americans have forced upon them. She could live as a black woman or a white woman. Yvonne’s ancestry is enmeshed with the Knights of…
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The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War [Book Review] H-Net Reviews 2002-01-23 Ethan S. Rafuse, Associate Professor of Military History United States Military Academy Victoria E. Bynum.“The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War”. The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies. Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina Press,…
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The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies [Review by Paul D. Escott] H-Net Reviews May, 2010 3 pages Paul D. Escott, Reynolds Professor of History Wake Forest University “Few histories,” writes Victoria Bynum, “are buried faster or deeper than those of political and social dissenters” (p. 148). The Long Shadow…
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The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies University of North Carolina Press April 2010 240 pp. 6.125 x 9.25, 9 illus. 1 map, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3381-0 Large Print ISBN: 978-0-8078-7909-2 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos In The Long Shadow of the…