Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Review: Identity in Passing: RACE-ING and E-RACE-ING in American and African American History The Journal of African American History Volume 101, No. 3, Summer 2016 pages 344-355 DOI: 10.5323/jafriamerhist.101.3.0344 Thomas J. Davis, Professor of History Arizona State University, Tempe Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity. Waco, TX: Baylor…
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“We Are Who We Say We Are” provides a detailed, nuanced account of shifting forms of racial identification within an extended familial network and constrained by law and social reality.
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For most of our history, the U.S. government treated biracial Americans as if we didn’t even exist, but my family has stories to tell.
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Thomas Chatterton Williams, fellow at the American Academy Berlin, read from his thought-provoking essay “Black and Blue and Blond” published in the Virginia Quarterly Review and anthologized in The Best American Essays 2016 which is now the basis of a book project.
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Zendaya has booked what Deadline calls a hot pitch package on the street right now. The film is called ‘A White Lie’ and it is a film adaptation of the Karin Tanabe novel, “The Gilded Years.”
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The hot pitch package on the street is “A White Lie,” an adaptation of the Karin Tanabe novel “The Gilded Years.” The book is a psychological thriller built around the true story of Anita Hemmings, a light-skinned African-American woman.
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The Empire Comes Home: Thomas Law’s Mixed-Race Family in the Early American Republic Chapter in: India in the American Imaginary, 1780s–1880s Palgrave Macmillan pages 75-108 Published online 2017-11-11 Online ISBN: 978-3-319-62334-4 Print ISBN: 978-3-319-62333-7 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-62334-4_3 Rosemarie Zagarri, Professor of History George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia Thomas Law was a high-ranking administrator with the British…
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Oral history said she was descended from a president and an enslaved woman. But what would her DNA say?