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  • New Yale award to honor high school juniors for community engagement

    New Yale award to honor high school juniors for community engagement Yale News New Haven, Connecticut 2016-06-15 This photograph of Ebenezer Bassett is part of the collection in the Yale Library’s Department of Manuscripts and Archives. Select high school juniors across the nation will be honored for their public service through the Yale Bassett Award…

  • News Alert | Four new theses in Europe explore Louisiana history

    News Alert | Four new theses in Europe explore Louisiana history Louisiana Historic and Cultural Vistas 2016-06-17 Christophe Landry For immediate release European theses explore Louisiana history In 2015 and 2016, students in England and the Netherlands finalized research on Louisiana history, culminating in dissertations (called theses in the United Kingdom and Holland). It probably…

  • Talking Race: Space and Body

    Talking Race: Space and Body The Bennington Free Press Bennington College, Bennington College, Vermont 2016-05-26 Samantha Barnett ‘19 I constantly think about how I move through space, how I claim space, how being mixed race means not knowing how my body will be identified. I think about how the first thing that I do when…

  • BEAUTIFUL ANITA HEMMING. STORY OF THE VASSAR GRADUATE BORN OF NEGROES.

    BEAUTIFUL ANITA HEMMING. STORY OF THE VASSAR GRADUATE BORN OF NEGROES. The Sacramento Daily Record-Union Friday, 1897-09-24 page 6, columns 1-4 Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. STORY OF THE VASAR GRADUATE BORN OF NEGROS She Kept the Secret of Her Birth for Years From Her Roommate. This is the story of…

  • COLORED VASSAR GIRL.

    COLORED VASSAR GIRL. The Saint Paul Globe Sunday, 1897-09-05 page 21, column 7 People at Poughkeepsie Thought Miss Hemmings Was a Spaniard. Anita Florence Hemmings, the Boston girl who has stirred up such a sensation by daring to complete a course at exclusive Vassar when she new that there was negro blood in her veins,…

  • Essential Measures: Ancestry, Race, and Social Difference

    Essential Measures: Ancestry, Race, and Social Difference American Behavioral Scientist April 2016, Volume 60, Number 4 pages 498-518 DOI: 10.1177/0002764215613398 Aaron Gullickson, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Oregon Race and ancestry are both popularly viewed in the United States as different but intertwined reflections on a person’s essentialized identity that answer the question of…

  • Mixed Student Union Hosts Fourth Annual Heritage Conference

    Mixed Student Union Hosts Fourth Annual Heritage Conference Pacific Ties University of California, Los Angeles 2016-05-13 Ayesha Sheikh UCLA’s Mixed Student Union (MSU) hosted their fourth annual Mixed Heritage Conference on April 30 in the James West Alumni Center. The organization’s goal for hosting the conference on campus, according to the organization’s co-director Ariel Pezner,…

  • Remarks by the President at Howard University Commencement Ceremony

    Remarks by the President at Howard University Commencement Ceremony The White House Washington, D.C. 2016-05-07 Office of the Press Secretary Howard University Washington, D.C. 11:47 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you! Hello, Howard! (Applause.) H-U! AUDIENCE: You know! THE PRESIDENT: H-U! AUDIENCE: You know! THE PRESIDENT: (Laughter.) Thank you so much, everybody. Please, please, have…

  • Obama Gets All In His Blackness At Howard

    Obama Gets All In His Blackness At Howard Code Switch National Public Radio 2016-05-10 Leah Donnella “Be confident in your heritage. Be confident in your blackness,” President Barack Obama told graduates and their families at Howard University’s 2016 Commencement Ceremony. It was one of many moments in a speech that honored the achievements of black…

  • The Experiences of Mixed-Race Students In An Urban Area

    The Experiences of Mixed-Race Students In An Urban Area University of Nebraska, Lincoln 2012 189 pages ISBN: 9781267282132 Germaine W. Huber University of Nebraska, Lincoln Mixed-race children are the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population, and it is essential that educators are aware of the unique experiences of this student population. The purpose of…