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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Kaa-tipeyimishoyaahk – ‘We are those who own ourselves’: A Political History of Métis Self-Determination in the North-West, 1830-1870 University of Victoria, British Columbia 2014 394 pages Adam James Patrick Gaudry Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in the Department of Indigenous Governance This dissertation offers an…
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Breath of Freedom The Smithsonian Channel Premieres Monday, 2014-02-17 20:00 EST Narrated by Cuba Gooding Jr. They fought to liberate Germany from Nazi rule, as racism reached unfathomable levels. Their fight would continue back home on American soil. This is the story of the one-million-plus African Americans who fought in World War II. Discover their…
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Baseball’s Secret Pioneer Slate 2014-02-04 Peter Morris, Baseball Historian Haslett, Michigan Stefan Fatsis, Sports Writer William Edward White, the first black player in major-league history, lived his life as a white man. On June 22, 1937, Joe Louis knocked out James Braddock with a right to the jaw to become the world heavyweight champion. At…
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The ‘white’ student who integrated Ole Miss Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-02-05 Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of American History Stanford University (CNN) — When Harry S. Murphy arrived at the University of Mississippi in the fall of 1945, he was nervous. He landed at Ole Miss by way of the Navy’s V-12 program, a wartime…
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Ties to Thomas Jefferson Unravel Family Mystery The Root 2014-01-26 Gayle Jessup White A woman seeks answers to decades-old questions about whether her family is related to the descendants of Thomas Jefferson. ore than 40 years ago, I learned of my family’s ancestral ties to Thomas Jefferson. It was a blood connection impossible to prove,…
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Decrying White Peril: Interracial Sex and the Rise of Anticolonial Nationalism in the Gold Coast The American Historical Review Volume 119, Issue 1 (February 2014) pages 78-110 DOI: 10.1093/ahr/119.1.78 Carina E. Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts In the summer and fall of 1919, the African-owned Gold Coast…