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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‘Free State of Jones’ author talks The Clarion-Ledger Jackson, Mississippi 2016-03-02 Author Victoria Bynum discusses her book, Free State of Jones, which is now a new Hollywood movie starring Matthew Mcconaughey. Watch the interview here.
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The Free State of Jones, Movie Edition: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War University of North Carolina Press March 2016 352 pages 32 halftones, 10 maps, 4 tables appends., notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN 978-1-4696-2705-2 Victoria E. Bynum, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History Texas State University, San Marcos With a New Afterword by the Author Between late…
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Finding my roots Eve’s Perspective: Sharing views one post at a time 2016-02-03 Ashley R. Alexander Born in 1872 in Maysville, Alabama. Jordan-Woodard is my 3rd great-grandmother. I couldn’t stop staring at the picture of this young lady. This young mulatto girl from the 19th century, who appears to look white and though there is…
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Twentieth Century-Fox’s Pinky is far from the first Hollywood feature film that depicts an interracial relationship. Despite the evolution of various censorship codes that forbid depicting “miscegenation,” Hollywood has a rich history of mining the salacious or elicit potential from interracial pairing on screen, from Broken Blossoms to Duel in the Sun, Showboat to Imitation…
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“The Free State of Jones” on Film: A Q&A with Victoria Bynum The Society of Civil War Historians 2016-03-01 Megan Kate Nelson This May, STX Entertainment will release the film Free State of Jones, which tells the story of the Knight Company and the Jones County rebellion, a Civil War history first told by Victoria…
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Speaker: Allyson Hobbs Colgate University 27 Persson Hall 13 Oak Drive Hamilton, New York 13346 Monday, 2016-03-21, 16:15-18:15 EDT (Local Time) Contact: Diane English 315-228-7511 Guest speaker Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Stanford University will give a lecture entitled: “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life”, Monday,…
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Author, 18, from Williamsburg examines race through his family’s eyes in book The Virginia Gazette Williamsburg, Virginia 2016-02-16 Heather Bridges, Contact Reporter Canaan Kennedy, 18, is a freshman at Virginia Commonwealth University who grew up in Williamsburg. He recently published a book, his first, on family members’ experiences with race. (Heather Bridges / The Virginia…