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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Racist Hysteria to Pragmatic Rapprochement? The German Debate about Rhenish ‘Occupation Children’, 1920–30 Contemporary European History Volume 22, Issue 2, May 2013 pages 155-180 DOI: 10.1017/S0960777313000039 Julia Roos, Associate Professor of History Indiana University, Bloomington This essay revisits 1920s German debates over the illegitimate children of the Rhineland occupation to examine hitherto neglected fluctuations in…
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This book explores the history of African tangible and intangible heritages and its links with the public memory of slavery in Brazil and Angola. The two countries are deeply connected, given how most enslaved Africans, forcibly brought to Brazil during the era of the Atlantic slave trade, were from West Central Africa.
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The Lives of Frederick Douglass Harvard University Press February 2016 350 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches 9 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780674055810 Robert S. Levine, Professor of English and a Distinguished University Professor University of Maryland Frederick Douglass’s fluid, changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in the many conflicting accounts he gave of…
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Poet’s Muse: A Footnote to Beethoven The New York Times 2009-04-02 Felicia R. Lee Haydn almost certainly encountered him as a child in a Hungarian castle, where the boy’s father was a servant and Haydn was the director of music, and Thomas Jefferson saw him performing in Paris in 1789: a 9-year-old biracial violin prodigy…
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Victoria Bynum to speak on the “Free State of Jones” at the Lauren Rogers Museum “Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection” (2015-09-06 through 2015-11-15) Lauren Rogers Museum of Art 565 N. Fifth Avenue Laurel, Mississippi 39440 2015-09-10, 17:30 CDT (Local Time) Vikki Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos I’m…
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From Okinawa to Hawaii and Back Again What It Means to Be American: Hosted by The Smithsonian and Zócalo Public Square 2015-08-31 Laua Kina, Vincent de Paul Professor of Art, Media, & Design DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois Kibei Nisei, 30 x 45 inches Oil on canvas (2012) A Painter Follows the Currents of Her Family…