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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Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia by Eva Sheppard Wolf (review) [Padraig Riley] Civil War History Volume 60, Number 2, June 2014 pages 199-201 DOI: 10.1353/cwh.2014.0041 Padraig Riley, Assistant Professor of History Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Wolf, Eva Sheppard, Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in…
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Can ‘Belle’ End Hollywood’s Obsession with the White Savior? The Daily Beast 2014-05-04 Keli Goff The black characters in films like ‘The Help’ and ’12 Years A Slave’ always seem to need a white knight. But the black protagonist in ‘Belle,’ a new film about racism and slavery in England, takes matters into her own…
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Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia University of Georgia Press June 2012 192 pages 6 b&w photos, 1 map Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-3229-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-3230-7 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-4364-8 Eva Sheppard Wolf, Associate Professor of History San Francisco State University In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf…
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Exploring the Political Exploitation of Blood Quantum in the U.S. Indian Country Today Media Network 2013-05-17 Vincent Schilling, Executive Vice President Schilling Media, Inc. Arica L. Coleman is an assistant professor of Black American Studies at the University of Delaware. She is African American and Native American (Rappahannock), which may help explain why she has…
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“That the Blood Stay Pure” traces the history and legacy of the commonwealth of Virginia’s effort to maintain racial purity and its impact on the relations between African Americans and Native Americans.
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Portrait of the mystery lady: The incredible story behind the 18th-century painting that inspired a new movie The Daily Mail 2014-05-03 Paula Bryne Attributed to Johann Zoffany (circa 1778) Until recently, little was known about the mixed-race girl in an 18th-century painting associated with Kenwood House in London. But a new book and film reveal…
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Fathers of Conscience with Bernie D. Jones [Part 2] Research at the National Archives & Beyond Blogtalk Radio 2014-05-08, 21:00 EDT (2014-05-09, 02:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Bernie D. Jones, Associate Professor of Law Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts Join Author Bernie D. Jones for an engaging discussion about her book – Fathers of Conscience – Mixed-Race…
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To the Manner Born? The New York Times 2014-05-01 Manohla Dargis ‘Belle’ Centers On a Biracial Aristocrat in the 18th Century No bodices seem to have been harmed, much less ripped, during the making of “Belle,” a period film at once sweeping and intimate, about an 18th-century Englishwoman who transcends her historical moment. Even so,…
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“Split At The Root”: The Reformation of The Mulatto Hero/Heroine AmeriQuests (Online) Vanderbilt University Volume 6, Number 1 2008-11-18 Tia L. Gafford, Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies Mercer University Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy offers a valuable insight on the development of a holistic and natural model for patriarchy in the 19th…
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Opinion: Supreme Court ruling upholds America’s mixed view Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-04-24 Martha S. Jones, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan (CNN) — I didn’t expect to find the specter of the mixed-race person making an appearance in Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision that upheld…