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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The Barber of Natchez National Park Service Natchez: National Historical Park, Mississippi 2012-07-19 Timothy Van Cleave, Park Ranger Natchez National Historical Park The Life of William Johnson Known as the “barber” of Natchez, William Johnson began his life as a slave. His freedom at age eleven followed that of his mother Amy and his sister…
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Mixing Race: The Kong Sing Brothers and Australian Sport Australian Historical Studies Volume 39, Issue 3 (2008) pages 338-355 DOI: 10.1080/10314610802263323 Gary Osmond, Lecturer School of Human Movement Studies University of Queensland Marie-Louise McDermott Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia Little research exists on the participation of Chinese in Australian sport in the colonial or…
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The fascist who ‘passed’ for white The Guardian 2007-04-04 Gary Younge, Feature Writer and Columnist Lawrence Dennis was a leading light in the American fascist movement of the 1930s. He was a fan of Hitler and a self-avowed anti-semite. Now a new book reveals that he was actually black—although even his wife didn’t know. Gary…
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Beginnings of Miscegenation of Whites and Blacks The Journal of Negro History Volume 3, Number 4 (October 1918) pages 336-453 Carter G. Woodson, Founder Although science has uprooted the theory, a number of writers are loath to give up the contention that the white race is superior to others, as it is still hoped that…
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Notions of race in modern-day Mexico addressed in lecture, exhibit The Daily Tar Heel 2013-04-03 Tat’yana Berdan The Daily Tar Heel is the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The complicated and nuanced issue of race in Mexico is often overlooked, but The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture…
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This article presents various aspects of light-skinned black people “passing” for whites by examining the 1919 case of Francis Patrick Dwyer’s suit to annul his marriage to Clara McCary Dwyer after becoming suspicious that their new baby boy had Negro blood. While Dwyer was correct, he failed to win his suit, and his wife was…
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Masters and Slaves: ‘Sugar in the Blood,’ by Andrea Stuart The New York Times 2013-03-29 Amy Wilentz Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire By Andrea Stuart, Illustrated. 353 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. On a trip to Paris, I recently had the same shocked realization that Andrea Stuart describes in her…
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This article examines Henry Ossawa Tanner’s complex sense of his own racial identity. Tanner’s conflict was born of the fact that in his personal adult life he walked a fragile line between his whiteness and his blackness; in France, he systematically worked to remove race from the equation of his life. The author also identifies…