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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Author and Professor Devyn Benson Speaks on Her Book “Antiracism in Cuba” Block Report Radio 2016-07-14 “Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution” by author and professor Devyn Benson is an impressive study on the history of racism and Black organizing in Cuba prior to the 1959 revolution and right after it. This book is very…
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This paper examines the scientific construction of racial differences through the lens of early twentieth-century bioanthropological studies of American Negro skeletal and living population samples.
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Mathematician Katherine Johnson at Work NASA History National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 2016-02-25 Sarah Loff, Editor Image Credit: NASA NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at Langley Research Center in 1966. Johnson began her career in 1953 at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the agency that preceded NASA,…
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Free State of Jones Capsizes Lost Cause Myths Process: A Blog For American History 2016-07-12 Matthew E. Stanley, Assistant Professor of History Albany State University, Albany, Georgia Reconstruction is perhaps the least understood period in American history, a distinction that has been both perpetuated by and reflected in popular culture since the late nineteenth century.…
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Alabama’s Anti-Miscegenation Statutes Alabama Review Volume 68, Number 4, October 2015 pages 345-365 DOI: 10.1353/ala.2015.0033 Jeremy W. Richter, Associate Webster, Henry, Lyons, Bradwell, Cohan & Speagle, P.C., Attorneys and Counselors at Law, Birmingham, Alabama In the immediate aftermath of the civil war and, more specifically, the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, various southern states began…
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Meet Edith Cumbo, Nation Builder Cumbo Family Website: Exploring Cumbo Family Roots and Branches across Generations 2016-07-24 Andre Kearns Washington, D.C. We celebrated our 2016 Cumbo Family Reunion last weekend July 15-17 in Williamsburg, Virginia. One of the reasons we chose Williamsburg was because Colonial Williamsburg features a historical figure – Edith Cumbo – who…
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A Mixed-Race, Mixed-Marriage Cumbo Family Website: Exploring Cumbo Family Roots and Branches across Generations 2016-05-06 Andre Kearns Washington, D.C. My great-great grandparents Edward Biggs and Florence Cumbo were both listed as Colored on their 1890 marriage license. So why am I classifying their union as a mixed marriage? It is because Edward Biggs was born…
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Secrets of Nation Inside Story 2016-07-15 Ann McGrath, Professor of History, Director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory Middle ground: detail from Bartering for a Bride, or The Trappers Bride, by Alfred Jacob Miller, c. 1845. Wikipedia Commons The buried secrets of Australia’s frontier share features with…
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Going Against History? Institute for Advanced Study 2016 Ann McGrath, Professor of History, Director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory Locket images of Elias and Harriett, ca. 1826 (Courtesy of the Boudinot Family) Illicit love and intermarriage When leading church elders posted the wedding banns on the…
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Call for Proposals: Colors of Blood, Semantics of Race: Racial Categories and Social Representations: A Global Perspective (From the late Middle Ages to the 21st Century) Casa de Velázquez Madrid, Spain 2016-12-15 through 2016-12-16 Toward the end of the Middle Ages, the outset of the European expansion considerably increased the contacts between culturally different peoples.…