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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New Marker Unveiling this Saturday in Manteo! Chowan Discovery Group 2013-08-07 Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director For decades, [North Carolina] NC Highway markers in Manteo have honored English exploration, the Lost Colony and Confederate forts. No reference to the local people has been acknowledged. Well, this Saturday, the first town encountered by the English, in…
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Fannie’s legacy: How a mixed-race couple settled early Lake Worth The Palm Beach Post West Palm Beach, Florida 2013-08-06 pages D4-D5 Scott Eyman, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer They thrived until Jim Crow laws forced them from the town. Before there was Lake Worth, there was a town called Jewell. It wasn’t a big town…
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Pioneers of Jewell: A Documentary History of Lake Worth’s Forgotten First Settlement (1885 – 1910) Lake Worth Herald Publication 2013 254 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 098326094X; ISBN-13: 978-0983260943 11 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches Ted Brownstein A documentary history of Jewell, Florida, a lost community of everglades pioneers founded in 1885 by Samuel and Fannie James,…
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New book details racism faced by black soldiers who helped build Alaska Highway Edmonton Journal Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 2013-08-02 Chris Zdeb EDMONTON – Author John Virtue admits he knew “absolutely nothing” about The Black Soldiers Who Built the Alaska Highway, which is also the title of his latest book, before he started researching the topic…
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The Black Soldiers Who Built the Alaska Highway: A History of Four U.S. Army Regiments in the North, 1942-1943 McFarland 2013 228 pages 39 photos, notes, bibliography, index Softcover (7 x 10) Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-7117-1 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4766-0039-0 John Virtue, Director International Media Center at Florida International University This is the first detailed account of…
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Mixed races, mixed messages UWM News University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 2013-08-02 A recent Cheerios commercial featuring a white mother, black father and their daughter attracted a few nasty comments, followed by a huge outpouring of support, with 95 percent of viewers “liking” the commercial. The recent advertisement is just one reflection of America’s long history…
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The Colors of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845 to 1945 Harvard University Press February 2011 272 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 20 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780674057012 George Bornstein, C. A. Patrides Professor of Literature, Emeritus University of Michigan, Ann Arbor A major reevaluation of relationships among Blacks, Jews, and Irish in the years…
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They Wouldn’t Allow Us to Use Daddy’s Last Name: A Family Historian’s Curiosity Leads to Revolutionary Results Bayou Talk Newspaper Volume 25, Number 7 (July 2013) pages 1-8 Anita R. Paul Most family history researchers know that surnames are an important key to finding ancestors. They also know that names can often lead to dead…