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: Women
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Plaçage and the Performance of Whiteness: The Trial of Eulalie Mandeville, Free Colored Woman, of Antebellum New Orleans American Nineteenth Century History Volume 15, Issue 2, 2014 pages 187-209 DOI: 10.1080/14664658.2014.959818 Carol Wilson, Arthur A. and Elizabeth R. Knapp Professor of American History Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland Depictions of plaçage, a type of concubinage found…
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Poet Natasha Trethewey Explores Public and Personal Histories of Race in America The Aspen Institute 2015-01-13 Caroline Tory, Program Coordinator Aspen Words, Aspen Colorado On a recent winter night, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey addressed an Aspen Words audience in Aspen, CO, on the intersection between art and activism. “[I am] a poet interested not…
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Young Artists: Saya Woolfalk W November 2008 Timothy McCahill For the last two years Saya Woolfalk has practically lived in No Place, the futuristic work she is creating through painting, sculpture and video. So it’s not surprising that when she talks about it, the line between fact and fiction seems a little fuzzy. More than…
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“The Christened Mulatresses”: Euro-African Families in a Slave-Trading Town The William and Mary Quarterly Volume 70, Number 2, April 2013 pages 371-398 DOI: 10.5309/willmaryquar.70.2.0371 Pernille Ipsen, Assistant Professor Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Department of History University of Wisconsin, Madison “MULATRESSE Lene”—or Lene Kühberg, as she is also called in the Danish sources—grew up…
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Examining five generations of marriages between African women and European men in a Gold Coast slave trading port, “Daughters of the Trade” uncovers the vital role interracial relationships played in the production of racial discourse and the increasing stratification of the early modern Atlantic world.
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Women in TV 2015: Tracee Ellis Ross in ‘black-ish’ Elle 2015-01-08 Seth Plattner, Culture Editor This article appears in the February 2015 issue of ELLE magazine. Clones and copywriters. Journalists and sex scientists. Cult survivors and carnival acts. These actors fearlessly take on roles that are all over the map. So what do they have…
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Racism And Redemption At The Tournament Of Roses Parade Forbes 2014-12-31 Andrew Bender, Business Travel Blogger Joan Williams holds the portrait from 1957, when she was Miss Crown City. On January 1, 2015, after 57 years, she will finally get to ride in the Tournament of Roses Parade. (Photo credit: Savannah Wood) The theme of…
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Woman rides in Rose Bowl parade almost 60 years after being snubbed because of her race The Washington Post 2015-01-01 Diana Reese Overland Park, Kansas Racism “was a fact of life,” Joan Williams says about 1958, the year she was supposed to ride on a city-sponsored float in the Rose Parade of Pasadena. The 27-year-old…
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Joan Williams in Rose Parade after nearly 60 years, but some wonder why she wasn’t in broadcast Pasadena Star-News Pasadena, California 2015-01-01 Christina Gullickson, Reporter Joan Williams, 82, right, rides the theme banner float Inspiring Stories, along Colorado Blvd. during the Rose Parade in Pasadena, California on January 1, 2015. (Photo by Leo Jarzomb/ Pasadena…
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For when word spread that light-complexioned Mrs. Williams was a Negro, fellow employees in the municipal office where she works as an accountant-clerk suddenly stopped speaking to her. Mayor Jeth Miller, who crowned her at the city employees annual picnic, neither participated with her in later civic events nor rode with her in the Tournament…