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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Here, I will explore Loving’s unintended consequences by considering why the Court took so much for granted and how the opinion later was deployed in unexpected ways. After briefly examining the facts and holdings in the case, I will show that the Justices accepted monoracial categories as a given, despite evidence of multiracial complexity.
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The Loving Story Home Box Office (HBO) 2012-02-14, 21:00 EST Nancy Buirski, Director and Producer In June 2, 1958, a white man named Richard Loving and his part-black, part-Cherokee fiancée Mildred Jeter travelled from Caroline County, VA to Washington, D.C. to be married. At the time, interracial marriage was illegal in 21 states, including Virginia.…
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The First American Freedom Fighter William Loren Katz 2012-02-02 William Loren Katz This February 2nd stands as the 500th anniversary of the death of Hatuey, an Indigenous American fighter for independence from colonialism not mentioned in the same breath as Patrick Henry, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. However, Hatuey deserves recognition as their earliest ideological…
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‘Town Secret’: Race of Famous Carthaginian Embraced The Pilot Southern Pines, North Carolina 2012-02-11 John Chappell Every year with its Buggy Festival, Carthage celebrates the achievements of a former slave, though until recently few knew it. William T. Jones — born a slave, and the son of a slave and her owner — ran the…
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The city is Macao, the Portuguese settlement on the China Coast, as it was more than 200 years ago. The promises are those made by Englishmen to marry their Macao mistresses, only to leave them abandoned and their children bastards.
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Virginia’s Caroline County, ‘Symbolic of Main Street USA’ The Washington Post 2012-02-10 Carol Morello Bowling Green, Va. — Only a few easily overlooked markers note the importance of Mildred and Richard Loving in Caroline County, where five decades ago the sheriff rousted the white man and his black bride from their bed and carted them…
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Replacing History With Fiction in Arizona The Nation 2012-02-08 Gary Younge In 1997 black America gained a new hero when Tiger Woods putted himself into history at the US Masters. Within a few weeks, it had lost him in an unlikely fashion—to a bespoke racial identity articulated on Oprah’s couch. Does it bother you…
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Writing Africans Out of the Racial Hierarchy: Anti-African Sentiment in Post-Revolutionary Mexico Cincinnati Romance Review Volume 30 (2011): Afro-Hispanic Subjectivities pages 172-183 Galadriel Mehera Gerardo, Assistant Professor of Latin American History Youngstown State University Over the past two decades scholars have examined Mexican racial ideology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They have…