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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Anatole Broyard wanted to be a writer, not a black writer. So he chose to live a lie rather than be trapped by the truth.
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Don’t let the politics of BLM define mixed-race Americans The New York Daily News 2021-06-19 Charles Byrd Mixed-race Americans (Shutterstock/Shutterstock) Prior to June 12, 1967, anti-miscegenation laws still existed in the southern United States. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned those remaining statutes of segregationist race-consciousness with its landmark “Loving v. Virginia” decision. That case did…
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Descendants of slaves who escaped across the southern border observe Texas’s emancipation holiday with their own unique traditions.
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Acquanetta Jungle Frolics2009-10-15 Richard Beland Acquanetta was born Mildred Davenport on July 17, 1921, and, depending on your source, was of either black or American Indian origin. A few writers have claimed she was Cheyenne Indian; possibly they’re confusing this with reports of her being from Cheyenne, Wyoming, or having been born in Ozone, near…
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Study of Multiracial Women Leading in Large Organizations Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, California 2021-06-19 Michele A. Richardson (marichardson@email.fielding.edu), Doctoral Student, Human Development School of Leadership Studies This study examines how multiracial women leaders see themselves and how that self-concept might influence their approach to navigating tensions and complexity at work.
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High Yellow (1965, trailer) [Starring Cynthia Hull] YouTube Department of Afro-American Research Arts Culture 2017-06-29 Cynthia Wood, a light-skinned 17-year-old girl, tries to pass as white after getting hired by wealthy movie magnate Mr. Langley, who has problems with his spoiled wife and promiscuous teenage daughter and son. Watch the full movie (01:20:11) here.
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He was buried in the erased College Hill Cemetery believed to be located in what is now the Italian Club Cemetery’s parking lot.