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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The Secret History of Race in the United States The Yale Law Journal Volume 112, Issue 6 (March 2003) pages 1473-1509 Daniel J. Sharfstein, Associate Professor of Law Vanderbilt University In the beginning, there was a man named Looney. George Looney’s world was Buchanan County, Virginia, a pocket of Appalachian hills and hollows that juts…
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American Triracial Isolates: Their Status and Pertinence to Genetic Research Eugenics Quarterly Volume 4, Issue 4 (December 1957) pages 187-196 (Curteousy of The Melungeon Heritage Assoication) Calvin L. Beale (1923-2008) United States Department of Agriculture In the 1950 Census of Population, 50,000 American Indians are listed as living in states east of the Mississippi River.…
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Telling Our Own Stories: Lumbee History and the Federal Acknowledgment Process The American Indian Quarterly Volume 33, Number 4, Fall 2009 pages 499-522 E-ISSN: 1534-1828, Print ISSN: 0095-182X Malinda Maynor Lowery, Assistant Professor of History University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Being part of and writing about the Lumbee community means that history always emerges…
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“What Ain’t Called Melungeons is Called Hillbillies”: Southern Appalachia’s In-Between People Forum for Modern Language Studies Volume 40, Issue 3 (2004) page 259-278 DOI: 10.1093/fmls/40.3.259 Rachel Rubin, Professor of American Studies University of Massachusetts, Boston The essay investigates literary evocations of Appalachia’s “in-between” people, the Melungeons. Melungeons are deployed by some as mystery (no one…
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A Free Man of Color [Theater Review] The Faster Times 2010-11-18 Johnathon Mandell Opening Date: 2010-11-18 Closing Date: 2011-01-09 Written by John Guare Directed by George C. Wolfe As “A Free Man of Color” begins, its hero, an ex-slave, is a bewigged, bejeweled fop who is the wealthiest and most sexually desirable man in New…