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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A Refugee from His Race: Albion W. Tourgée and His Fight against White Supremacy University of North Carolina Press 2016-05-02 464 pages 9 halftones, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2795-3 Carolyn L. Karcher During one of the darkest periods of U.S. history, when white supremacy was entrenching itself throughout the nation, the…
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Paperback Row Book Review The New York Times 2016-04-29 Joumana Khatib Seven new paperbacks to check out this week… …A CHOSEN EXILE: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, by Allyson Hobbs. (Harvard University, $16.95.) People who chose to “pass” were intentionally clandestine and left few clues of their histories, but here, Hobbs, a…
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Loyal Southerners – a presentation by Marvin T. Jones Rock Creek Nature Center 5200 Glover Road, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20015 Saturday, 2016-05-07, 09:30-11:00 EDT (Local Time) Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director Chowan Discovery Group The story of the most famous of Southern Unionists, Newton Knight (left) will be screened on film. It stars Mathew McConaughey and…
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At Yale, a Right That Doesn’t Outweigh a Wrong The New York Times 2016-04-29 Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Peter V & C Vann Woodward Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Studies Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut NEW HAVEN — Yale made a grievous mistake this week when it announced that it would keep the…
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The Man Who Stole Himself: The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan University of Chicago Press 2016 264 pages 8 color plates, 49 halftones 6 x 9 Gísli Pálsson, Professor of Anthropology University of Iceland The island nation of Iceland is known for many things—majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood—but racial diversity is not one of…
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Made Black Jersey City Theater Center Merseles Studios 339 Newark Avenue, 2nd Floor Jersey City, New Jersey Saturday, 2016-05-07 20:00-23:00 EDT (Local Time) JCTC New Play Reading presents Schwarz Gemacht (Made Black) a cutting-edge, controversial play exploring race and identity through one of the most overlooked subcultures of the 20th century – mixed-race black German citizens…
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“One Drop of Love”: The Keynote Performance for the Mixed Heritage Conference at UCLA University of California, Los Angeles James West Alumni Center 325 Westwood Plaza Los Angeles, California 90095 Saturday, 2016-04-30 14:30-16:00 PDT (Local Time) Join us for some or all of this enlightening and affirming conference. One Drop will start at 2:30 pm…
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atrina Jagodinsky’s enlightening history is the first to focus on indigenous women of the Southwest and Pacific Northwest and the ways they dealt with the challenges posed by the existing legal regimes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In most western states, it was difficult if not impossible for Native women to inherit property, raise…
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Color Lines: Sex, Race, and Body Politics in Pre/Colonial Ghana Indiana University, Bloomington Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society Schuessler Institute for Social Research 1022 E. 3rd Street Maple Room, IMU Bloomington, Indiana 47405 Thursday, 2016-04-28, 16:00-17:30 EDT (Local Time) Carina Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University,…