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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Plein Air: Mapping Mary Ann Armstrong Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments Number 24 (Fall/Winter 2009) Deborah Fries, Editorial Board Member The first time I saw her picture, I wanted to know everything about her. I wanted to know where she’d lived before she married my great, great grandfather in 1859. I…
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Origin Traditions of American Racial Isolates: A Case of Something Borrowed Appalachian Journal Volume 11, Number 3 (Spring 1984) pages 201-213 David Henige University of Wisconsin, Madison Beginnings have an irritating but essential fragility and one that should be taken to heart by all who occupy themselves with history. —Pierre Teilhard de Chardin There are…
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The Birth of Physical Anthropology in Late Imperial Portugal Current Anthropology Volume 53, Number S5, April 2012 13 pages Gonçalo Santos, Senior Research Fellow Max-Planck-Institut für Ethnologische Forschung In this article I analyze the emergence of the field of physical anthropology in the metropolitan academic sphere of the Portuguese Empire during the late nineteenth century.…
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Firman/Furman Family Tracing the Black Presence in Nineteenth-Century Westmorland, New Brunswick Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada 2011 Jennifer Harris, Associate Professor of English Mount Allison University The Furman family, consisting of parents John and Susan L. with their son Ralph, is buried in St. Mark’s Anglican Cemetery, Mount Whatley, as is daughter Mary…
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The Loving Story – HBO Screening Event Multiracial Network Blog 2012-01-24 It is a rare occasion for Marc Johnston, MRN Chair, and Heather Lou, MRN Incoming Chair, to find themselves in the same city outside of the annual ACPA Convention. So what do these two fun-loving higher education and student affairs administrators choose to do…
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Don Lemon: Legacy of ‘one drop’ rule inspires search for family history Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-01-29 Don Lemon, Anchor CNN Newsroom This is final installment of a three-part series about the (1)ne Drop Project. Read Don Lemon’s column, “It only takes one drop,” and Yaba Blay’s…