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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Longtown was established nearly 200 years ago in what is now Greenville. The settlement grew into a thriving mixed-race community and a major stop on the Underground Railroad.
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Children of black American GIs, Going on holiday with mum, Salome at the National Theatre Woman’s Hour BBC Radio 4 2017-05-19 Jenni Murray, Presenter Beverley Purcell, Producer Carole Travers from Poole in Dorset is one of a number of mixed heritage children born to African-American fathers who were stationed in the UK during World War…
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Today on the Academic Minute, Scott Solomon, professor of biosciences at Rice University, delves into gene flow and how globalization and mixed-race children could hold a key to our future.
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Virginia Matsuoka was 10 years old when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
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Anita Hemmings was Vassar College’s first African American graduate. But no one was supposed to know that she was black.
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A month after Rachel Dolezal was propelled into the public spotlight in 2015, the American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book “Between the World and Me” came out…
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Guillermo Eliseo was a wealthy Mexican banker and broker who lived in New York City in the early 20th Century. But, Eliseo had a secret. He was actually born into slavery on a cotton plantation in southern Texas, and his real name was William Ellis.