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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Review: Identity in Passing: RACE-ING and E-RACE-ING in American and African American History The Journal of African American History Volume 101, No. 3, Summer 2016 pages 344-355 DOI: 10.5323/jafriamerhist.101.3.0344 Thomas J. Davis, Professor of History Arizona State University, Tempe Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity. Waco, TX: Baylor…
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“We Are Who We Say We Are” provides a detailed, nuanced account of shifting forms of racial identification within an extended familial network and constrained by law and social reality.
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A ground-breaking, seminal work, “Black Tudors” challenges the accepted narrative that racial slavery was all but inevitable and forces us to re-examine the seventeenth century to determine what caused perceptions to change so radically.
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The Empire Comes Home: Thomas Law’s Mixed-Race Family in the Early American Republic Chapter in: India in the American Imaginary, 1780s–1880s Palgrave Macmillan pages 75-108 Published online 2017-11-11 Online ISBN: 978-3-319-62334-4 Print ISBN: 978-3-319-62333-7 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-62334-4_3 Rosemarie Zagarri, Professor of History George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia Thomas Law was a high-ranking administrator with the British…
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Oral history said she was descended from a president and an enslaved woman. But what would her DNA say?
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IZMIR, Turkey – Dotted along Turkey’s Aegean coastline are a smattering of villages that the country’s Afro-Turks call home.
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Based on historian Victoria Bynum’s acclaimed book The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War, this film marks an important shift in the popular depiction of America’s greatest conflict as it takes viewers inside the complex inner civil wars many Americans fought during this period.
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Judith Weisenfeld’s “New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration” is, in short, a marvelous book…