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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Race, Marriage, and the Law of Freedom: Alabama and Virginia 1860s-1960s Chicago-Kent Law Review Volume 70, Issue 2: Symposium on the Law of Freedom, Part I: Freedom: Personal Liberty and Private Law (1994) pages 371-437 Peter Wallenstein, Professor of History Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University INTRODUCTION In 1966, one hundred years after Congress passed…
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Ties to Thomas Jefferson Unravel Family Mystery The Root 2014-01-26 Gayle Jessup White A woman seeks answers to decades-old questions about whether her family is related to the descendants of Thomas Jefferson. ore than 40 years ago, I learned of my family’s ancestral ties to Thomas Jefferson. It was a blood connection impossible to prove,…
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Cousins, Across the Color Line The New York Times 2014-01-22 Tess Taylor EL CERRITO, Calif. — I learned about her through the comments section of an article in Publisher’s Weekly. I had recently published a book of poems crafted out of family stories, and it had been written up, along with a brief interview. In…
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Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina from the Colonial Period to About 1820 (Fifth Edition) Genealogical Publishing Company 2005 2 volumes; 1355 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780806352800 Paul Heinegg The third edition of Paul Heinegg’s Free African Americans of North Carolina and Virginia was awarded the American Society of Genealogists’ prestigious Donald…
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“Free Negroes” and “Mulattoes” of Gloucester County and the Tidewater Area of Virginia Prior to 1800
“Free Negroes” and “Mulattoes” of Gloucester County and the Tidewater Area of Virginia Prior to 1800 Renegade South: histories of unconventional southerners 2013-08-01 The following guest essay by Wayne K. Driver expands upon my own research on the Morris Family of Gloucester County, Virginia. Vikki Bynum, Moderator By Wayne K. Driver Throughout my years of…
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Loving v. Virginia (No. 395): 206 Va. 924, 147 S.E.2d 78, reversed. Waren, C.J., Opinion of the Court, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 388 U.S. 1, Loving v. Virginia Appeal from the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia No. 395 Argued: April 10, 1967 Decided: June 12, 1967 Source: Legal Information Institute, Cornell University…
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Virginia Ban on Interracial Marriages Goes to Federal Court This Week The New York Times 1965-01-24 page 43 RICHMOND, Jan. 23—A constitutional test of Virginia laws that make it a crime for a white person to marry a Negro will begin here next week. The case is regarded as certain to go to the United…
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How the Negro Is Taking Advantage of the Opportunities for Advancement—Some Singular Ideas as to the Future Outcome of Present Developments — Another Talker Suggests a Colored State.
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Notorious in the Neighborhood with Joshua Rothman, Ph.D. Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2013-08-22, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2013-08-23, 01:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Joshua D. Rothman, Professor of History and African American Studies University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families Across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861 Laws…