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 Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life Emory University 2016-02-18 In this Race and Difference Colloquium, Allyson Hobbs, an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Stanford University, discusses her first book, A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, published by Harvard University Press in October…
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Allyson Hobbs: A Chosen Exile Miami University Room 1 Upham Hall 100 Bishop Circle Oxford, Ohio 45056 Thursday, 2016-02-25, 17:00 EST (Local Time) The E.E. McClellan Lecture in History Allyson Hobbs is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Stanford University. Her book A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life,…
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The True Story of the ‘Free State of Jones’ The Smithsonian Magazine March 2016 Richard Grant; Photographs by William Widmer A new Hollywood movie looks at the tale of the Mississippi farmer who led a revolt against the Confederacy With two rat terriers trotting at his heels, and a long wooden staff in his hand,…
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Storytelling matters to Stanford historian Allyson Hobbs Stanford News Stanford University, Stanford, California 2016-02-19 Kate Chesley, Associate Director of University Communications Allyson Hobbs and her award-winning book, A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life ALLYSON HOBBS, assistant professor of American history, finds much of the inspiration for her research in the…
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Valentine’s Day special! On love, race and history in Ghana Africa is a Country 2016-02-14 Dan Magaziner, Associate Professor of History Yale University Despite colonial administrators’ attempts to sabotage their marriage plans, Brendan (a district commissioner) and Felicia Knight wed in 1945. Fifteen years later, Felicia staged a successful one-woman-protest in front of Flagstaff House…
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Rising Sun, “Rising Soul”: Mixed Race Japanese of African Descent University of Southern California, University Park Campus Los Angeles, California Montgomery Ross Fisher Building (MRF) Montgomery Ross Fisher Auditorium (340) Friday, 2016-02-26, 14:00-17:00 PST (Local Time) Rising Soul is a documentary film that explores the question, “What is the impact of Afro-Japanese offspring and their…
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Ordinary Yet Infamous: Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso Not Even Past: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” William Faulkner 2016-02-01 Kali Nicole Gross, Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies University of Texas, Austin Adapted from Kali Nicole Gross’s new book: Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A…
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How and why did they do it? Harriet Beecher Stowe House 2950 Gilbert Avenue Cincinnati, Ohio 45206 Sunday, 2016-02-28, 13:00 EST (Local Time) Between the the 18th and mid-20th centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and communities. Allyson Hobbs, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of History, Stanford University, will…
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Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class, black woman, and George Wilson, a former neighbor whom Tabbs implicated after her arrest. As details surrounding the shocking case emerged, both the crime and ensuing trial-which spanned several…