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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“Turning Up Their Noses at the Colonel”: Eastern Aristocracy, Western Democracy, and Richard Mentor Johnson Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Volume 111, Number 4, Autumn 2013 pages 525-561 DOI: 10.1353/khs.2014.0022 Miles Smith Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas In February 1849, the Kentucky legislature debated who would represent the state and fill the open…
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The Young White Faces of Slavery The New York Times 2014-01-30 Mary Niall Mitchell, Joseph Tregle Professor of Early American History University of New Orleans For Northern readers scanning the Jan. 30, 1864, issue of Harper’s Weekly for news from the South, a large engraving on page 69 brought the war home in an unexpected…
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New Orleans After the Civil War: Race, Politics, and a New Birth of Freedom by Justin A. Nystrom (review) Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Volume 111, Number 4, Autumn 2013 pages 617-619 DOI: 10.1353/khs.2014.0023 Aaron Astor, Associate professor of History Maryville College, Maryville, Tennessee Nystrom, Justin A., New Orleans after the Civil War: Race,…
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Even though they lived under Jim Crow, they thrived: A Community of Free People—The Winton Triangle Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum 1901 Fort Place, Southeast Washington, D.C., 20020 202-633-4820 Saturday, 2014-02-01, 14:00-16:00 EST (Local Time) Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director Chowan Discovery Group For over 260 years, the Winton Triangle’s mixed-race landowning community successfully navigated slavery,…
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We often think of Reconstruction as an unfinished revolution. Justin A. Nystrom’s original study of the aftermath of emancipation in New Orleans takes a different perspective, arguing that the politics of the era were less of a binary struggle over political supremacy and morality than they were about a quest for stability in a world…
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Getting Race-y in the PMAC The News: The official student newspaper of Choate Rosemary Hall Wallingford, Connecticut Saturday, 2014-01-25 Alexandra Brunjes ’16, News Staff Reporter “How does our belief in ‘race’ affect our most intimate relationships?” This is the question that Ms. Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni sought to answer during her one-woman performance, One Drop of…
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Cousins, Across the Color Line The New York Times 2014-01-22 Tess Taylor EL CERRITO, Calif. — I learned about her through the comments section of an article in Publisher’s Weekly. I had recently published a book of poems crafted out of family stories, and it had been written up, along with a brief interview. In…
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The Life And Times Of Adella Hunt Logan: Educator, Mother, Wife, And Suffragist, 1863-1915 Florida State University November 2012 Daria Willis Adella Hunt Logan was a woman trapped between two worlds. She was a mulatto who suffered from the pressures and injustices of Jim Crow America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The…
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And if We Weren’t Genetically Mixed Race? Cubanow Havana, Cuba 2013-12-23 Luis Toledo Sande (Translated by Dayamí Interián) To effectively fight racism, it’s necessary to know everything about it and expose its tricks. Otherwise, we run the risk of getting trapped by them, since they are powerful, able to “innocently” camouflage themselves in the interstices…
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This groundbreaking history traces the development of Germany’s black community, from its origins in colonial Africa to its decimation by the Nazis during World War II.