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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NASA Facility Dedicated to Mathematician Katherine Johnson Space.com 2016-05-05 Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer Katherine Johnson, pictured here at NASA’s Langley Research Center, where she worked as a “computer” and mathematician from 1953 to 1986. Langley dedicated a computing facility to Johnson in a ceremony today (May 5). Credit: NASA NASA honored 97-year-old mathematician Katherine Johnson…
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The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity by Gregory D. Smithers (review) Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 47, Number 2, Autumn 2016 pages 241-242 Tyler Boulware, Associate Professor of History West Virginia University The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity. By Gregory D. Smithers (New Haven, Yale…
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The article analyzes Brazilian anthropologist Edgard Roquette-Pinto’s participation in the international debate that involved the field of physical anthropology and discussions on miscegenation in the first decades of the twentieth century.
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Born a Slave: Rediscovering Arthur Jackson’s African American Heritage The Orderly Pack Rat 2015-04-25 328 pages 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-0970430816 David W. Jackson By the close of the Civil War in 1865 all American slaves became free citizens. Suddenly a new life dawned for them and their descendants. Arthur Jackson,…
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Putting The Past Behind Them: Slave Descendant Unites With Plantation Owner Growing Wisconsin 2016-07-13 Lynne Hayes The dinner was historic on many levels. On one side of the table sat Nkrumah Steward, 44, the ancestor of a slave. On the other side of the table sat Robert Adams, the ancestor of the man who owned…