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: Native Americans/First Nation
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Cherokee Phoenix: Remarks on the Report of the Committee on Indian Affairs in the House of Representatives Cherokee Phoenix and Indians’ Advocate New Echota, Georgia Wednesday, 1830-03-30 Volume II, Number 50 Page 1, column 1b; Page 2, column 2b Source: Hunter Library, Western Carolina University and Georgia Historic Newspapers We have read that part of…
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When Cars Assume Ethnic Identities The New York Times 2013-06-21 Glenn Collins Coming to a showroom near you for 2014: the first sport utility vehicle in its class equipped with a 9-speed automatic transmission. It’s also the first to offer a parallel-parking feature. And, in 4-wheel-drive models, the rear axle disconnects automatically, for fuel efficiency.…
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Black Indians, Pompey Fixico w/ historian & author Dr. Katz The Gist of Freedom BlogTalk Radio 2013-05-16 Leslie Gist, Host Join The Gist of Freedom as we welcome Pompey Fixico and William L. Katz. Pompey Fixico ancestors fought US slave-catchers and military units for 42 years in Florida. Mr. Katz and Mr.Fixico will discuss the…
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Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-First Century by Circe Sturm (review) The American Indian Quarterly Volume 37, Numbers 1-2, Winter/Spring 2013 pages 269-272 DOI: 10.1353/aiq.2013.0006 Miguel A. Maymí Circe Sturm’s book Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-First Century is an insightful view into the motivations of those…
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Remembering Crispus Attucks and the forgotten black soldiers of the American Revolution The Grio 2013-05-27 Ronda Racha Penrice Crispus Attucks. (Library of Congress) Memorial Day may be more about barbecues and blowout sales than honoring our deceased veterans these days, but there are many reasons for African-Americans in particular to take pause. Starting with the…
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At Peace With Many Tribes The New York Times 2013-05-19 Carol Kino HUDSON, N.Y. — One sunny afternoon early this month Jeffrey Gibson paced around his studio, trying to keep track of which of his artworks was going where. Luminous geometric abstractions, meticulously painted on deer hide, that hung in one room were about to…
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The Story of Fort Mosé Freedom Road Productions 2013 Derek Hankerson, Director Francisco Menendez (played by James Bullock) This is the story of Fort Mosé and Francisco Menendez in St. Augustine, Florida.
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We Are Not Going To Go Away “Colonial Williamsburg” Journal Spring 2013 Andrew G. Gardner Virginia’s Pamunkey Indians Greeted the Jamestown Settlers, but They Are Still Waiting for National Recognition Beyond Virginia’s borders, the Pamunkey Indians are remembered, when they are remembered at all, mostly for a princess named Pocahontas. England’s Queen Elizabeth II probably…
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“‘Tubbee’ and His Nieces: A Colloquy on White Men, Choctaw Women, Intermarriage and ‘Indianness’ in the Choctaw Intelligencer, 1851” Southeastern Oklahoma State University Native American Symposium 2005-Proceedings of the Sixth Native American Symposium pages 21-30 Richard Mize The Choctaw Intelligencer’s editorial commentary varied greatly when it came to Choctaw–Chickasaw relations with the United States in…
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Re-Visioning Wildfire: Historical Interpretations of the Life and Art of Edmonia Lewis Southeastern Oklahoma University Native American Symposium 2005-Proceedings of the Sixth Native American Symposium pages 31-39 Julieanna Frost Concordia University As a feminist historian, one of my major goals is to reclaim the histories of women and to broadcast the diversity of the female…