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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Conversations: Victoria Bynum Mississippi Public Broadcasting Aired: 2016-06-16 Length: 00:26:46 Historian and author Victoria Bynum talks about her book, “The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest War.” First published in 2003, the book tells the story of Jones County residents who opposed secession from the Union during the civil war. The true story is receiving…
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Former Duquesne, Penn State athlete Cumberland Posey elected to Basketball Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 2016-04-05 Stephen J. Nesbitt, Beat Writer Courtesy of the Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, N.Y. Will become only person inducted into both professional basketball, baseball halls of fame The grass-roots campaign to get Cumberland “Cum” Posey enshrined in the…
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‘A New Holland Half-Caste’: Sealer and Whaler Tommy Chaseland History Australia Volume 5, Issue 1, 2008 pages 08.1-08.15 DOI: 10.2104/ha080008 Lynette Russell, Professor Monash University, Australia This article discusses the life of Tommy Chaseland, a ‘half-caste’ Aboriginal son of a convict who became a renowned sealer and whaler and emigrated to New Zealand in the…
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“White Enough to Pass”: Uncovering the story of John Wesley Gibson underbelly: From the Deepest Corners of the Maryland Historical Society Library 2016-01-21 Excerpt from William Still’s 1872 book, The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, & c., Narrating the Hardships Hair-breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in their Efforts…
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Book Launch: A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs The Powerhouse Arena 37 Main Street Brooklyn, New York 11201 Telephone: 718.666.3049 Wednesday 2016-06-15, 19:00-21:00 EDT (Local Time) Focusing on individuals and their experiences, Allyson Hobbs examines how racial passing became both a strategy for survival and an avenue…
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What You Didn’t Know About Loving v. Virginia TIME 2016-06-10 Arica L. Coleman The landmark civil rights Supreme Court case—which made it illegal to ban interracial marriage—was about more than black and white When the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case Loving v. the Commonwealth of Virginia, defendants Richard and Mildred Loving chose not…
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Sexual Relations Between Elite White Women and Enslaved Men in the Antebellum South: A Socio-Historical Analysis Inquiries: Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities 2013, Volume 5, Number 8 pages 1-3 J. M. Allain There is ample evidence of sexual relations, from rapes to what appear to be relatively symbiotic romantic partnerships, between white slave masters and…
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Texas slave passes as Mexican millionaire San Antonio Express-News San Antonio, Texas 2016-06-11 Joe O’Connell Former slave passes as Mexican millionaire Historian Karl Jacoby was driving near the Texas-Mexico border when he was stopped by the U.S. Border Patrol, the agency charged with keeping Mexicans out of the United States. He explained, to their dismay,…
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National Women’s History Museum presents Chinese American Women: A History of Resilience and Resistance National Women’s History Museum 2016-06-08 Joseph, Emily, Mamie, Frank, and Mary Tape. Tape v. Hurley Mary Tape was a biracial Chinese American woman who believed that her daughter, Mamie, should have the same access to education as white children in San…