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: Tri-Racial Isolates
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The Winton Triangle The State of Things WUNC 91.5 North Carolina Public Radio 2011-06-17 Frank Stasio, Host Susan Davis, Senior Producer Marvin Jones, Historian Chowan Discovery Group More Americans marked at least two boxes for “race” on the 2010 Census than ever before. The country may not be increasingly multiracial but it certainly is increasingly…
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Author Explores Racial Mixing In New Historical Novel VPR News Vermont Public Radio 2012-03-14 Neal Charnoff, Reporter; Local Host All Things Considered We last heard from writer Lisa Alther in 2007, when she spoke with VPR’s Neal Charnoff about her memoir, Kinfolks. Alther has returned to fiction in a big way with her epic historical…
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Northwest of Manhattan where the New York-New Jersey boundary crosses the tree-covered ridges and hollows ridges and hollows of the Ramapo Mountains there is a group of about 1,500 racially mixed people who have long been referred to by journalists and historians as the “Jackson Whites.”
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Carolina Genesis: Beyond the Color Line Backintyme Publishing April 2010 258 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780939479320 Edited by Scott Withrow Borderlands of “Racial” Identity Some Americans pretend that a watertight line separates the “races.” But most know that millions of mixed-heritage families crossed from one “race” to another over the past four centuries. Every essay in…
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The Founder Effect and Deleterious Genes American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 30, Issue 1 (January 1969) pages 55-60 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330300107 Frank B. Livingstone (1928-2005), Professor Emeritus of Biological Anthropology University of Michigan During the rapid growth of a population from a few founders, a single deleterious gene in a founder can attain an appreciable…
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The mystery, myth and marvel of the Melungeons of East Tennessee Chattanooga Parent/North Georgia Parent 2012-01-08 Jennifer Crutchfield Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492. Even the youngest of us knows that rhyme but there is more to the story of the conquest of the New World and it was a man’s search for clues…
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Bertie County: An Eastern Carolina History Arcadia Publishing 2002-10-21 160 pages ISBN: 9780738523958 Arwin D. Smallwood, Associate Professor of History The University of Memphis The lives of the Native American, African, and European inhabitants of Bertie County over its 400 years of recorded history have not only shaped, but been shaped by its landscape. One…
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Plein Air: Mapping Mary Ann Armstrong Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments Number 24 (Fall/Winter 2009) Deborah Fries, Editorial Board Member The first time I saw her picture, I wanted to know everything about her. I wanted to know where she’d lived before she married my great, great grandfather in 1859. I…
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Origin Traditions of American Racial Isolates: A Case of Something Borrowed Appalachian Journal Volume 11, Number 3 (Spring 1984) pages 201-213 David Henige University of Wisconsin, Madison Beginnings have an irritating but essential fragility and one that should be taken to heart by all who occupy themselves with history. —Pierre Teilhard de Chardin There are…
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Origin, Development and Maintenance of a Louisiana Mixed-Blood Community: The Ethnohistory of the Freejacks of the First Ward Settlement Ethnohistory Volume 26, Number 2 (Spring, 1979) pages 177-192 Darrell A. Posey Georgia State University The Fifth Ward Settlement is composed of approximately 2,500 mixed-blood (Black, While and Indian) inhabitants called “Freejacks.” The Settlement has developed…