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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Searching for a new soul in Harlem Gender News The Clayman Institute for Gender Research Stanford University 2012-02-27 Annelise Heinz, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History Stanford University Allyson Hobbs on passing and racial ambiguity during the Harlem Renaissance Harlem in the 1920s is known for its creative outpouring of art, music, and literature.…
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The ‘white’ slave children of New Orleans: Images of pale mixed-race slaves used to drum up sympathy among wealthy donors in 1860s Daily Mail 2012-02-28 When eight former slaves aimed to drum up support for struggling African-American schools in the 1860s, they believed they had just the thing. In order to garner sympathy –…
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Pruning the Family Tree Vassar: The Alumnae/i Quarterly Volume 99, Issue 3 (Summer 2003) Online Additions Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York Virginia Edwards Castro ’64 Blanco, Texas When I was in grade school my family subscribed to the Saturday Evening Post. There was a cover I will never forget. It was an illustrated family tree,…
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In the 1920s and 1930s, U.S. physical anthropologists imagined Hawai‘i as a racial laboratory, a controllable site for the study of race mixing and the effects of migration on bodily form. Gradually a more dynamic and historical understanding of human populations came to substitute for older classificatory and typological approaches in the colonial laboratory, leading…
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Pain of ‘Trail of Tears’ shared by Blacks as well as Native Americans Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-02-25 Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan Editor’s Note: Tiya Miles is chairwoman of the Department of Afro-American and…
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We as Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson Pelican Publishing Company 2003 176 pages 5½ x 8½ 20 photos – Notes – Index ISBN: 1-58980-120-2 EAN: 978-1-58980-120-2 hc Keith Weldon Medley In June 1892, a thirty-year-old shoemaker named Homer Plessy bought a first-class railway ticket from his native New Orleans to Covington, north of Lake Pontchartrain. The…
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The Absurdity of America: George S. Schuyler’s Black No More EnterText: an interdisciplinary humanities e-journal Volume 1, Number 1 (Winter 2000) Americas, Americans pages 127-148 Joseph Mills, Susan Burress Wall Distinguished Professor of the Humanities North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at…
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Mixing It Up: Supporting Multiracial Students in Racial Affinity Groups American College Personnel Association ACPA 2012 Annual Convention Louisville, Kentucky 2012-03-24 through 2012-03-28 Session Information: Wednesday, 2012-03-28 08:30-09:30 EDT (Local Time) Kentucky International Convention Center, 212 & 213 Heather C. Lou, FYE Coordinator University of Vermont Adam J. Ortiz, House Director Hampshire College Rachel Luna…
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Obituaries: Fredi Washington, 90, Actress; Broke Ground for Black Artists The New York Times 1994-06-30 Sheila Rule Fredi Washington, one of the first black actresses to gain recognition for her work on stage and in film, died on Tuesday at St. Joseph Medical Center in Stamford, Conn., where she lived. She was 90. The cause…