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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Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860 University of North Carolina Press 2002 360 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 11 illus., notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 0-8078-2726-6 Paperback ISBN 0-8078-5401-8 eBook ISBN: 9780807862155 Diane Batts Morrow, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies University of Georgia, Athens…
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Racism faced by black nuns in America called ‘dangerous memory’ Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse 2016-08-18 Andrew Nelson, Catholic News Service In early American history black women could be accepted into orders of nuns only if they could “pass for white,” and later they faced significant racial prejudice. Despite all that, they became role models…
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‘An offer of my heart’: A story of black love after the Civil War The Washington Post 2016-09-08 DeNeen L. Brown, Reporter One hundred and forty-four years after they were written, the civil rights advocate found the letters in the bottom of an old suitcase, stacked in thin envelopes and tied together by a faded,…
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Modern American Spiritualism blossomed in the 1850s and continued as a viable faith into the 1870s. Because of its diversity and openness to new cultures and religions, New Orleans provided fertile ground to nurture Spiritualism, and many séance circles flourished in the Creole Faubourgs of Tremé and Marigny as well as the American sector of…
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On Being a Black Female Math Whiz During the Space Race The New York Times 2016-09-05 Cara Buckley, Culture Reporter Katherine Johnson, left, and Christine Darden, two of the former NASA mathematicians in the book “Hidden Figures.” Credit: Chet Strange for The New York Times HAMPTON, Va. — Growing up here in the 1970s, in…
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A look at historical multiracial families through the House of Medici OUPblog: Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World 2016-09-04 Catherine Fletcher Catherine Fletcher is author of The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici. The Medici, rulers of Renaissance Florence, are not the most obvious…
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Passing in Boston: The Story of the Healy Family WGBHForum 2014-03-26 Boston College history professor, James O’Toole discusses his newest book Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820-1920, which documents the extraordinary life of the Healy brothers of Boston. In the mid-1800’s, the Healy brothers of Boston, James, Patrick, and Sherwood, looked…
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When Black Is Brown: The African Diaspora in Mexico The Museum of African American Art Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza Macy’s 3rd Floor 4005 Crenshaw Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90008 2016-06-05 through 2016-09-18 Opening Reception: 2016-06-05, 14:00-17:00 PDT (Local Time) WHERE BLACK IS BROWN: The African Diaspora In Mexico opens Sunday, June 5, 2016, with a…