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: Book/Video Reviews
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An escaped slave navigates the white world in a suspenseful bid for freedom.
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Civil rights lawyer Tanya Katerí Hernández takes up a sensitive but critical subject.
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Florence Nightingale’s Rival Gets the Last Laugh
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Book review: Marguerite Penrose writes about her experiences as a mixed-race girl growing up in Dublin
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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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Scholars, poets, writers, composers… a new book focuses on the wide influence of Africa abroad, writes Angela Cobbinah
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When Walter White joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s New York staff in 1918, he had a thin record of civil rights activism. But he quickly made himself into the association’s indispensable man, particularly skilled at communicating the terror of racial violence to White audiences.
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This debut novel is a surefooted, art-filled and wholly 21st-century take on bloodsucking