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 a moving account, anthropologist Paula L. Wagoner tells the story of Bennett County, using snapshots of community events and crises, past and present, to reveal the complexity of race relations and identities there.
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Baseball’s Secret Pioneer Slate 2014-02-04 Peter Morris, Baseball Historian Haslett, Michigan Stefan Fatsis, Sports Writer William Edward White, the first black player in major-league history, lived his life as a white man. On June 22, 1937, Joe Louis knocked out James Braddock with a right to the jaw to become the world heavyweight champion. At…
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The ‘white’ student who integrated Ole Miss Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-02-05 Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of American History Stanford University (CNN) — When Harry S. Murphy arrived at the University of Mississippi in the fall of 1945, he was nervous. He landed at Ole Miss by way of the Navy’s V-12 program, a wartime…
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Miscegenating Racial Representations: Critical Mixed Race Strategies and the Visual Arts College Art Association 102nd Annual Conference Hilton Chicago 720 South Michigan Avenue International South, 2nd Floor Chicago, Illinois 60605 2014-02-15, 14:30-17:00 CST (Local Time) Chairs: Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design DePaul University Margo Machida, Associate Professor of Art History and Asian…
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Why I Can’t Be My Son’s Mother The Blog The Huffington Post 2014-02-04 Shannon Shelton Miller My 6-month-old wouldn’t smile for his stage mom, no matter what faces she made or how much she cooed in his ear. So the photographer asked for my help. I positioned myself next to the camera, directly in my…
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A Breakdown & Discussion of Upcoming Events with Our Very Own, Steve Riley Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2014-02-12, 17:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host On Wednesday’s episode of Mixed Race Radio, Steve Riley (mixedracestudies. org) will join me to discuss some upcoming events and performances occurring all over the world. Whether you…
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Grafton Tyler Brown—whose heritage was likely one-eighth African American—finessed his way through San Francisco society by passing for white. Working in an environment hostile to African American achievement, Brown became a successful commercial artist and businessman in the rough-and-tumble gold rush era and the years after the Civil War. Best known for his bird’s-eye cityscapes,…