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  • Multiracial identities and resilience to racism: The role of families

    In this opinion feature, Dr. Annabelle Atkin — an assistant professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN — explores the unique challenges that Multiracial people face in attaining and maintaining well-being and offers suggestions on how to mitigate those challenges.

  • Plessy v. Ferguson: An Excerpt from Firsthand Louisiana

    Plessy v. Ferguson: An Excerpt from Firsthand Louisiana University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press 2020-08-13 Devon Lord, Editor In Chief Discover the history of the Pelican State through the eyes of the people who lived it and shaped its course. In Firsthand Louisiana: Primary Sources in the History of the State, historians Janet Allured, John…

  • U.S. Approval of Interracial Marriage at New High of 94%

    Ninety-four percent of U.S. adults now approve of marriages between Black people and White people, up from 87% in the prior reading from 2013. The current figure marks a new high in Gallup’s trend, which spans more than six decades.

  • The Story Of J.P. Morgan’s ‘Personal Librarian’ — And Why She Chose To Pass As White

    The Story Of J.P. Morgan’s ‘Personal Librarian’ — And Why She Chose To Pass As White Code Switch National Public Radio 2021-08-31 Karen Grigsby Bates, Senior Correspondent Marie Benedict (left) and Victoria Christopher Murray Phil Atkins This summer on Code Switch, we’re talking to some of our favorite authors about books that taught us about…

  • Black Identity and the Power of Self-Naming

    Black Identity and the Power of Self-Naming Black Perspectives 2021-09-10 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr., Assistant Professor of Africana Studies California State University, Long Beach Kill the Bill IV Protest in London, England, UK on May 29, 2021 (Loredana Sangiuliano, Shutterstock) Black identity is the most political social identity used to identify people of African descent…

  • Yellow Wife, A Novel

    Yellow Wife, A Novel Simon & Schuster2021-01-12288 pagesHardcover ISBN-13: 9781982149109Paperback ISBN-13: 9781982149116Audiobook ISBN-13: 9781797118819 (09:31:00) Sadeqa Johnson Called “wholly engrossing” by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom, this harrowing story follows an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in the most infamous slave jail in Virginia. Born on a plantation…

  • She was raped by the owner of a notorious slave jail. Later, she inherited it.

    She was raped by the owner of a notorious slave jail. Later, she inherited it. The Washington Post 2020-02-01 Sydney Trent, Local enterprise reporter An engraving print of the Lumpkin Slave Jail, from Corey’s “A History of the Richmond Theological Seminary.” (City of Richmond) Robert Lumpkin was one of the South’s most prolific and brutal…

  • INGRID DINEEN-WIMBERLY. The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862–1916.

    INGRID DINEEN-WIMBERLY. The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862–1916. The American Historical Review Volume 126, Issue 2 (June 2021) pages 797–798 DOI: 10.1093/ahr/rhab307 Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor, Associate Professor of History Kent State University, Kent, Ohio Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly. The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862–1916. (Borderlands and Transcultural Studies.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,…

  • A Black-white, biracial life is one of immense alienation

    I will never experience the same struggle of my Black brothers and sisters, and I am ashamed to say that I’m Black because of that — because I’ll never experience that same suffering.

  • Op-Ed: Why did so few Latinos identify themselves as white in the 2020 census?

    But all the justified focus on the “browning” of America obscured a second storyline: the browning of Brown America.