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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African Slavery: The New Hollywood Renaissance Our Weekly: Los Angeles 2013-11-14 William Covington, Contributor With the recent release of “12 Years A Slave” and “Django Unchained” and numerous slave genre movies awaiting release, it appears the slavery motif is possibly generating a new African American Renaissance in Hollywood. According to Pasadena screenwriter Herman James, “Hollywood…
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From the time of its first appearance, the story of Pocahontas has provided the terms of a flexible discourse that has been put to multiple, and at times contradictory, uses. Centering around her legendary rescue of John Smith from the brink of execution and her subsequent marriage to a white Jamestown colonist, the Pocahontas convention…
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Victoria to fly flag in memory of executed Métis leader Louis Riel Times Colonist Victoria, British Columbia 2013-11-15 Richard Watts The infinity-embossed flag of the Métis Nation will fly at municipalities around B.C. as they proclaim Saturday as Louis Riel Day. Victoria, Langford and Sidney have agreed to the proclamation. Victoria has even agreed to…
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As part of a new collaboration with the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, NolaVie will spotlight entries from KnowLA.org—the Digital Encyclopedia of Louisiana, including unique events and people in our state’s history. This month, we commemorate the end of Storyville. On November 12th, 1917, Mayor Martin Behrman acquiesced to pressure from the US Navy and…
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Goree: of Slavery, Signares and Foreigners with Cash dofo kow/ߘߝߏ ߞߏ ߎ/history matters 2013-01-16 Jody Benjamin Two of the hottest Hollywood films out right now deal with American slavery, “Lincoln” and “Django Unchained.” The history of slavery in the United State is once again in mainstream cultural vogue, this time with A-list directors Stephen Spielberg…
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“Free Negroes” and “Mulattoes” of Gloucester County and the Tidewater Area of Virginia Prior to 1800
“Free Negroes” and “Mulattoes” of Gloucester County and the Tidewater Area of Virginia Prior to 1800 Renegade South: histories of unconventional southerners 2013-08-01 The following guest essay by Wayne K. Driver expands upon my own research on the Morris Family of Gloucester County, Virginia. Vikki Bynum, Moderator By Wayne K. Driver Throughout my years of…
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How Diversity Will Alter Black History The Root 2013-11-06 Lynette Holloway A changing population will help shed more light on America’s multiracial past. (The Root)—This is part 3 of a three-part series. To see the previous stories, here and here. Time was, the social construct of the one-drop rule made United States history either black…
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Written records agree with Melungeon DNA results Jack Goins’ Melungeon and Appalachian Research October 2013 William E. Cole University of Tennessee Joe Stevenson Looney University of Tennessee Written records agree with Core Melungeon DNA Results. The Core Melungeon DNA Project was formed with Family Tree DNA on July 25, 2005. The goal of the project…