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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“To Lift Up My Race,” a collection of writings by Cassius, gives us the man–evangelist, educator, farmer, entrepreneur, postmaster, politician, and father of twenty-three–in a significant moment in the emergence of black culture and society between Reconstruction and the Great Depression.
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Joseph Jenkins Roberts: A Love for Liberia StMU Research Scholars: Featuring Scholarly Research, Writing, and Media at St. Mary’s University St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas 2020-02-17 Antonio Holverstott Portrait of Joseph Jenkins Roberts taken by Augustus McCarthy circa 1840-1860 | Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. In 1846, the governor of the African colony of Liberia,…
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Arturo Schomburg’s experiences as an Afro Puerto Rican at the turn of the century influenced his approach to rescuing and preserving Black history.
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Mestizo Modernity: Race, Technology, and the Body in the Postrevolutionary Mexico University Press of Florida 2018-08-28 250 pages 6×9 Hardcover ISBN 13: 9781683400394 Paper ISBN 13: 9781683403104 David S. Dalton, Assistant Professor of Spanish University of North Carolina, Charlotte After the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1917, postrevolutionary leaders hoped to assimilate the country’s…
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Descendant of Alex Manly talks about modern impact of 1898 Massacre WECT News 6 Wilmington, North Carolina 2021-11-10 Mara McJilton, Multimedia Journalist Alex Manly was the owner of The Daily Record newspaper in 1898 when it was burned down by white supremacists WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) –Alex Manly was the owner of The Daily Record newspaper…
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This interdisciplinary investigation argues that since the 1990s, discourses about mixed-race heritage in the United States have taken the shape of a veritable literary genre, here termed “memoir of the search.”
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Historians argue Roper’s story could have helped end US slavery earlier but supporters turned on him