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: United States
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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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‘Passing’ keeps its writing simple, asking viewers to lean in for greater understanding The Los Angeles Times 2022-01-18 Rebecca Hall Adapting Nella Larsen’s slim novella took writer-director Rebecca Hall 13 years. “Ultimately, I did my best to build my script and my film, not so much out of language as out of small moments of…
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Surnames, by Counties and Cities, of Mixed Negroid Virginia Families Striving to Pass as “Indian” or White by Walter A. Plecker (ca. 1943) Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics Richmond, Virginia (Source: Encyclopedia Virginia) December 1943 To Local Registrars, Clerks, Legislators, and others responsible for, and interested in, the prevention of…
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Through this research, I also became closer to my father’s family. This piece will take you through this journey of discovery and my frustrations along the way.
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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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The reality, as “An American Color” explains, is that on the surface, New Orleans did have a racial and social system that confounded the more prudent and established black-white binary at work in the social rhetoric of the British-descended states further north. But this was not unique, especially within the United States.