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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Meet Yosif Stalin, The Soviet-Born Black American From Kremlin, Virginia Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 2016-04-08 Carl Schrek KREMLIN, Virginia — Yosif Stalin stood before his Kremlin home on a windswept afternoon this spring, his weathered hands gripping his walker. “I still own it,” he said of the white, two-story house off a lonely country road.…
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Author, 18, from Williamsburg examines race through his family’s eyes in book The Virginia Gazette Williamsburg, Virginia 2016-02-16 Heather Bridges, Contact Reporter Canaan Kennedy, 18, is a freshman at Virginia Commonwealth University who grew up in Williamsburg. He recently published a book, his first, on family members’ experiences with race. (Heather Bridges / The Virginia…
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A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia, by Richard Dunn The English Historical Review Volume 130, Issue 547, December 2015 pages 1575-1577 DOI: 10.1093/ehr/cev299 Trevor Burnard, Professor of History University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia, by…
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Hundreds gather over Maggie Walker statue controversy WWBT, NBC 12 Richmond, Virginia 2016-01-12 Ashley Monfort, Henrico Reporter RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) – Discussion about plans to build a statue of Maggie Walker in downtown Richmond drew a lot of opinions on both sides. Hundreds of residents gathered at the Richmond Public Library Tuesday to have their…
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My Ancestor’s Name and Race Changed in Census Records. Why? The Root 2016-01-01 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. University Professor; Director, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research Harvard University Anna L. Todd, Researcher New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS), Boston, Massachusetts 1860 U.S. census for Hardy County, Va. U.S. census Tracing…
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First Look at Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton in ‘The Loving Story’ (Based on Anti-Miscegenation Case) Shadow and Act: On Cinema Of The African Diaspora 2015-11-20 Tambay A. Obenson Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton as Mildred and Richard Loving, on the set of the movie “Loving,” being shot in Richmond, Va. (Ben Rothstein/Big Beach Films…
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Williams: A positive among the attack ads in the Gecker-Sturtevant race Richmond Times-Dispatch Richmond, Virginia 2015-11-02 Michael Paul Williams, Columnist During the 2000 Republican primary in South Carolina, John McCain was the target of a whisper campaign that he’d fathered a black child out of wedlock. McCain, who in reality had an adopted Bangladeshi daughter,…
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America’s forgotten migration – the journeys of a million African-Americans from the tobacco South to the cotton South
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The Roanes of Virginia: 2 families with the same surname. Are they related or not? Genealogy Adventures 2015-09-20 Brian Sheffey What could possible be confusing about two immigrant families coming from the same region in Europe and landing in the US around the same time? When it comes to pre-Revolutionary War Era Roane family…there’s plenty.…
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Pocahontas’ tribe, the Pamunkey of Virginia, finally recognized by U.S. The Los Angeles Times 2015-08-02 Noah Bierman Mikayla Deacy, 4, swims with her dog Dakota in the Pamunkey River. As a member of the tribe, Mikayla will be eligible for scholarships and other benefits now that the Pamunkey have received federal recognition. (Carolyn Cole /…