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 History and Evolution of Racism and Discrimination in Sierra Leone The Sierra Leone Daily Mail 2012-02-10 In 1961, the independence constitution of Sierra Leone created a single nationality, without any distinction by race, ethnic group or sex. ‘Every person’ born in the former colony or protectorate who was a citizen of the United Kingdom…
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Nationalism, Racism and Propaganda in Early Weimar Germany: Contradictions in the Campaign against the ‘Black Horror on the Rhine’ German History Volume 30, Issue 1 (March, 2012) pages 45-74 DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghr124 Julia Roos, Associate Professor of History Indiana University, Bloomington During the early 1920s, an average of 25,000 colonial soldiers from North Africa, Senegal and…
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Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860 McFarland 2012 [Originally Published by University of South Carolina press in 1985] 300 pages 6 x 9 Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7864-6931-4 Larry Koger, Historian Most Americans, both black and white, believe that slavery was a system maintained by whites to exploit blacks, but this authoritative study…
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The compelling account of how two heritages united in their struggle to gain freedom and equality in America—now updated with new content!
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Two Minds, One Heart SAS Fronties: Research and Scholarship in the School of Arts & Sciences University of Pennsylvania February 2011 Blake Cole Undergraduate Kaneesha Parsard delves into the storied history of indentured Indian labor in the Caribbean. “Growing up I never thought much about it, except for the fact that in addition to curry…
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Film retells Lovings’ love story The Free Lance-Star Fredericksburg, Virginia 2012-02-06 Jonas Beals Mildred and Richard Loving were probably the last people you would expect to make legal history, but in 1967 they won a U.S. Supreme Court case that nullified laws against interracial marriage in Virginia and the 15 other states that still banned…
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‘The Loving Story’ to premiere in Caroline County The Free Lance-Star Fredericksburg, Virginia 2012-02-04 Jonas Beals Caroline County will get the red-carpet treatment Saturday evening. HBO, Comcast and the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia are hosting an invitation-only screening of the new HBO documentary “The Loving Story” at the Caroline County Community Services Center.…
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Bertie County: An Eastern Carolina History Arcadia Publishing 2002-10-21 160 pages ISBN: 9780738523958 Arwin D. Smallwood, Associate Professor of History The University of Memphis The lives of the Native American, African, and European inhabitants of Bertie County over its 400 years of recorded history have not only shaped, but been shaped by its landscape. One…
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Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes University of Massachusetts Press December, 2001 256 pages 6.125 x 9.25 ISBN (paper): 978-1-55849-310-0 Susan Sleeper-Smith, Professor of History Michigan State University An innovative study of cultural resilience and resistance in early America A center of the lucrative fur trade throughout the…