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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Kristen Green’s The Devil’s Half Acre recounts the story of a fugitive slave jail, and the enslaved woman, Mary Lumpkin, who came to own it.
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In this episode of Dialogues in Afrolatinidad, Dr. Paul Joseph López Oro, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Smith College talks with our host Dr. Michele Reid-Vazquez about his research on Garifuna migration and different meanings of Black identity.
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Though a means of escaping and undermining racial injustice, the practice comes with own set of costs and sacrifices.
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A Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings’ family explores America’s racial reckoning through the prism of her ancestors—both the enslaver and the enslaved.
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Scholars, poets, writers, composers… a new book focuses on the wide influence of Africa abroad, writes Angela Cobbinah
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African Europeans: An Untold History Basic Books 2021-05-04 304 pages Hardcover ISBN-13: 9781541619678 eBook ISBN-13: 9781541619937 Audiobook Downloadable ISBN-13: 9781549136627 Olivette Otele, Professor of History of Slavery and Memory of Enslavement University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian…
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New History Finally Recognizes Afro-Creole Spiritualists Religion Dispatches 2016-09-20 Paul Harvey, Distinguished Professor of History University of Colorado “Ladder of Progress,” a drawing added to the archive of the Cercle Harmonique by René Grandjean, the circle’s first archivist. Emily Clark’s new work, A Luminous Brotherhood, is an extensive study of a subject that has weirdly…
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A small plaque marks the spot where the man believed to be Britain’s first black school teacher educated children in a Scottish village.