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: History
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Searching for a new soul in Harlem Gender News The Clayman Institute for Gender Research Stanford University 2012-02-27 Annelise Heinz, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History Stanford University Allyson Hobbs on passing and racial ambiguity during the Harlem Renaissance Harlem in the 1920s is known for its creative outpouring of art, music, and literature.…
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The ‘white’ slave children of New Orleans: Images of pale mixed-race slaves used to drum up sympathy among wealthy donors in 1860s Daily Mail 2012-02-28 When eight former slaves aimed to drum up support for struggling African-American schools in the 1860s, they believed they had just the thing. In order to garner sympathy –…
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Pruning the Family Tree Vassar: The Alumnae/i Quarterly Volume 99, Issue 3 (Summer 2003) Online Additions Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York Virginia Edwards Castro ’64 Blanco, Texas When I was in grade school my family subscribed to the Saturday Evening Post. There was a cover I will never forget. It was an illustrated family tree,…
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Black History Month: Making truth live The Windsor Star 2012-02-27 Elise Harding-Davis To me, as a Canadian woman of African origins, Black History Month is meant to share factual stories and events about North America’s African-based cultures. It is also a prime time to debunk myths and validate folklore and our cherished oral histories. …
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In the 1920s and 1930s, U.S. physical anthropologists imagined Hawai‘i as a racial laboratory, a controllable site for the study of race mixing and the effects of migration on bodily form. Gradually a more dynamic and historical understanding of human populations came to substitute for older classificatory and typological approaches in the colonial laboratory, leading…
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Election of the first black mayor Daily Mail 1913-11-10 Source: mytimemachine.co.uk Coloured Mayor—Majority of One at Battersea—Dramatic Speech For the first time in the history of this country a man of colour has been elected mayor of a borough. The honour has fallen to Mr. John Richard Archer, a photographer, of Battersea Park-Road, who by…
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Pain of ‘Trail of Tears’ shared by Blacks as well as Native Americans Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-02-25 Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan Editor’s Note: Tiya Miles is chairwoman of the Department of Afro-American and…
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We as Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson Pelican Publishing Company 2003 176 pages 5½ x 8½ 20 photos – Notes – Index ISBN: 1-58980-120-2 EAN: 978-1-58980-120-2 hc Keith Weldon Medley In June 1892, a thirty-year-old shoemaker named Homer Plessy bought a first-class railway ticket from his native New Orleans to Covington, north of Lake Pontchartrain. The…
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Portrait of Crimean War Nurse Mary Seacole Acquired by National Portrait Gallery artdaily.org 2012-02-12 Mary Seacole by Albert Charles Challen, 1869. ©National Portrait Gallery, London. LONDON.- The only known painting of Mary Seacole, the black Victorian nurse regarded as one of the most significant figures to emerge from the Crimean War, is to remain at…
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Looking White, Acting Black: Cast(e)ing Fredi Washington Theatre Survey Volume 45, Issue 1 (2004) pages 19-40 DOI: 10.1017/S0040557404000031 Cheryl Black, Associate Professor of Acting, Theatre History/Theory/Criticism University of Missouri, Columbia In October 1926 a leading African-American newspaper, the Pittsburgh Courier, featured adjacent photographs of two young women with a provocative caption: “White Actresses Who Open…