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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Now, Tiya Miles’s luminous but highly accessible novel examines a little-known aspect of America’s past—slaveholding by Southern Creeks and Cherokees—and its legacy in the lives of three young women who are drawn to the Georgia plantation where scenes of extreme cruelty and equally extraordinary compassion once played out.
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Chicago’s Jazz Age still lives in Archibald Motley’s art The Chicago Tribune 2015-03-20 Howard Reich Where does Chicago’s Jazz Age still live? In the paintings of Archibald Motley, on view in a new exhibition Trumpets blared, saxophones thundered, singers belted and dancers swayed from nighttime to past sunup. Walk along “the Stroll” — a very…
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Old Glory: The Symbol of One America 1696 Heritage Group 2015-03-16 Keith Stokes, Vice President Richard Gill Forrester, c. 1850 The photograph taken in 1850 during the earliest years of a new-fangled technology called photography, captures a well-dressed, handsome five year old boy named Richard Gill Forrester, of antebellum Richmond, Virginia. Just as the photograph…
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‘Kiss me, I’m Irish’ took on a new meaning when DNA proved that I was The Guardian 2015-03-17 Michael W. Twitty New tests confirmed what my family had long known: our ancestors were children of their Irish-American slaveholders Like many African Americans, I was excited by the possibility of using DNA tests to learn about…
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‘A Chosen Exile:’ Examining African Americans Passing As White In America [VIDEO] NewsOne Now NewsOne 2015-02-27 Author Allyson Hobbs joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” to discuss her new book, “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life.” Hobbs an assistant professor of American History at Stanford University told Martin that when…
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San Francisco Lithographer: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown Arts Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) July 2014 Amy De Simone, Research Consultant Kansas State University by Robert J. Chandler. University of Oklahoma Press, February 2014. 264 p. ill. ISBN 9780806144108 (cl.), $36.95. More than just a book about one man, San Francisco Lithographer: African…
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First Look at Matthew McConaughey in The Free State of Jones ComingSoon.net 2015-03-09 Max Evry Motion picture and television studio STX Entertainment has begun principal photography on the theatrical feature The Free State of Jones in and around New Orleans, Louisiana, it was announced by Adam Fogelson, Chairman of STX Entertainment’s Motion Picture Group. The…
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Book Discussion on A Chosen Exile C-SPAN: Created by Cable Recorded on 2015-02-27 at: The National Archives Museum William G. McGowan Theater Washington, D.C. Allyson Hobbs talked about her book A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, in which she examines the lives of African Americans who chose to pass as white…