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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A major new history of the fight for racial equality in America, arguing that fear of black sexuality has undergirded white supremacy from the start.
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Hundreds of thousands, according to a new study of Census data. Doing so provided some economic benefits but came at a great personal cost.
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This essay will illustrate how attitudes toward complexion, within the black community, are a direct consequence and perpetual remnant of the white supremacy and racial hierarchy that developed in colonized societies.
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n light of the various events organised this year to commemorate the 70-year presence of Moluccans in the Netherlands, it seems appropriate to go further into the way these colonial subjects were received, especially in relation to the regulation of mixture. As will be demonstrated, the local regulation in Huizen was not exceptional, but part…
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Rediscovered Ancestry: a Family Learns the Story of Their Remarkable Ancestor, Senator Lawrence Cain
In his book, “The Virtue of Cain: From Slave to Senator” (2021, Rocky Pond Press), Kevin Cherry focuses on the short but extraordinary life of Reconstruction era Senator Lawrence Cain of Edgefield, South Carolina. Cherry, Cain’s great great-grandson, also tells the contemporaty story of a family with Southern roots, long identified as having some American…
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Queer Memory and Black Germans The New Fascism Syllabus: Exploring the New Right through Scholarship and Civic Engagement 2021-06-08 Tiffany N. Florvil, Associate Professor of European History University of New Mexico Memorial plaque, May-Ayim-Ufer, Berlin. OTFW CC BY-SA 3.0. In “The German Catechism,” Dirk Moses offers an interesting intervention by challenging the idea of the…
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He was buried in the erased College Hill Cemetery believed to be located in what is now the Italian Club Cemetery’s parking lot.
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The extraordinary struggle, achievement, loss, and reclamation of three brilliant African American artists of the 1800s
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On Friday, a Georgia historical marker was unveiled in downtown Augusta to mark the home at 448 Telfair St. where Amanda America Dickson Toomer – perhaps the richest Black woman of the 19th century – spent the last seven years of her life.
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Based on events portrayed in Parker’s autobiography, “An Upstream Battle” illustrates the real danger that Parker and other members of the Underground Railroad were exposed to, and their commitment to helping runaway slaves, despite that danger.