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: Virginia
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How a long-dead white supremacist still threatens the future of Virginia’s Indian tribes The Washington Post 2015-07-01 Joe Heim, Staff Writer Walter A. Plecker’s goal as Virginia’s registrar of vital statistics was to ban race-mixing. He declared there were no true Indians left because of marriages with blacks. (Richmond Times-Dispatch) Virginia’s Indian tribes have faced…
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The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race Johns Hopkins Univesity Press August 2012 240 pages 1 halftone, 1 line drawing Hardback ISBN: 9781421407005 Rebecca Anne Goetz, Associate Professor of History New York University In The Baptism of Early Virginia, Rebecca Anne Goetz examines the construction of race through the religious beliefs and practices…
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Movie about Va.’s now-defunct ban on interracial marriage to be shot in state The Washington Post 2014-05-14 Laura Vozzella, Richmond Bureau Reporter RICHMOND — Virginia has landed a movie project about Richard and Mildred Loving, the real-life Virginia couple arrested in 1958 for violating the state’s interracial marriage ban. The Lovings filed a lawsuit that…
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Old Glory: The Symbol of One America 1696 Heritage Group 2015-03-16 Keith Stokes, Vice President Richard Gill Forrester, c. 1850 The photograph taken in 1850 during the earliest years of a new-fangled technology called photography, captures a well-dressed, handsome five year old boy named Richard Gill Forrester, of antebellum Richmond, Virginia. Just as the photograph…
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EIHS Lecture: “Partus Sequitur Ventrem: Slave Law and the History of Women in Slavery” Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies University of Michigan 1014 Tisch Hall 435 South State Street Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1003 2015-02-05, 16:00-18:00 CST (Local Time) Jennifer L. Morgan, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, History New York University In 1662, legislators in…
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‘A Tale of Two Plantations,’ by Richard S. Dunn Sunday Rook Review The New York Times 2015-01-02 Greg Grandin, Professor of History New York University Dunn, Richard S., A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014). For enslaved peoples in the New World, it was…
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Forty years ago, after publication of his pathbreaking book “Sugar and Slaves,” Richard Dunn began an intensive investigation of two thousand slaves living on two plantations, one in North America and one in the Caribbean.
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COLA Seminar Probes Shifting Identity of ‘Whiteness’ in America University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 2014-11-17 Anne Bromley, Associate UVA Today The category of “white” as the majority race against which other groups have been described in the United States might seem well-defined, but it has been anything but that…
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Historically Black: Imagining Community in a Black Historic District New York University Press July 2014 208 pages 10 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9780814762882 Paper ISBN: 9780814763483 Mieka Brand Polanco, Assistant Professor of Anthropology James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia In Historically Black, Mieka Brand Polanco examines the concept of community in the United States: how communities are…
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Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry tells the story of this couple and the case that forever changed the law of race and marriage in America.