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 Hudson River School via Cincinnati Chronogram: Arts, Culture, Spirit Kingston, New York 2011-05-28 Sparrow “History can be blind,” observes Joseph D. Ketner II, curator of “Robert S. Duncanson: ‘the spiritual striving of the freedmen’s sons,’” an exhibition at the Thomas Cole National Historical Site in Catskill. Duncanson (1821-1872) was an African-American landscape painter, once…
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The Loving Story Silverdocs Documentary Festival (2011-06-20 through 2011-06-26) Silver Spring, Maryland Augusta Films, LLC 2011 77 minutes Thursday, 2011-06-23, 14:45 EDT (Local Time) Friday, 2011-06-24, 19:30 EDT (Local Time) Official Website: www.lovingfilm.com Director and Producer: Nancy Buirski Producer and Editor: Elisabeth Haviland James Screenwriters: Nancy Buirski and Susie Ruth Powell Mildred and Richard Loving,…
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Researcher presents new views on 18th century mixed races and their families William & Mary: News & Events 2011-06-15 Andrea Davis Daniel Livesay, NEH postdoctoral fellow at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at William & Mary, presented a paper at the University of Texas in February that discussed the mixed children…
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Africa’s Latin Quarter The Walrus July 2008 (Escape: Summer 2008) Stephen Henighan Despite bleak poverty, Mozambique’s multi-ethnic literary culture thrives In downtown Maputo, the monument to the origins of apartheid is just off Karl Marx Street. Maputo, with its manageable proportions, dreamy views over Delagoa Bay, and cosmopolitan restaurant scene, is one of Africa’s most…
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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy University of Virginia Press 1998 305 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8139-1833-4 Annette Gordon-Reed, Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History; Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of History Harvard University When Annette Gordon-Reed’s groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas…
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The Hidden History of Mestizo America The Journal of American History Volume 82, Number 3 (December, 1995) pages 941-964 5 illustrations Gary B. Nash, Professor Emeritus of History University of California, Los Angeles This essay was delivered as the presidential address at the national meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Washington, March 31,…
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In this groundbreaking study, Thomas Ingersoll argues the Jacksonian American Indian removal policy appealed to popular racial prejudice against all Indians, including special suspicion of mixed bloods. Lawmakers also perceived a threat to white Americans’ transatlantic reputation posed by the potential for general racial mixture, or “amalgamation.”
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Passing for Black: Sermon Unitarian Church of Norfolk Norfolk, Virginia 2010-08-29 Dr. Walter Skip Earl OPENING WORDS Forty-seven years ago yesterday, on August 28, 1963, before a huge crowd of African and other Americans gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said: In a sense, we’ve come to our nation’s…