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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Nathan Crowell on Racial Identity: Gloucester County, Virginia, revisited Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2013-01-14 Victoria E. Bynum, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Some time ago, in response to my 10 November 2011 post, “Free People of Color in Old Virginia: The Morris Family of Gloucester County,” (which I…
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Oysters made Hampton man wealthy Daily Press Newport News, Virginia 2013-02-17 Mark St. John Erickson, Columnist Even before the Civil War, Hampton’s busy waterfront boasted many free blacks who made their living as pilots, fishermen and boatmen. Living side by side with whites who worked in the same maritime trades, they included such figures as…
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Race Relations in Virginia & Miscegenation in the South, 1776-1860 University of Massachusetts Press 1970 362 pages ISBN-10: 0870230506; ISBN-13: 978-0870230509 James Hugo Johnston (1891-1974), Professor of History University of Virginia Contents FOREWORD PREFACE PART I. THE RELATION OF THE NEGRO TO THE WHITE MAN IN VIRGINIA 1. Friendly Relations 2. Violent Relations 3. Free…
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You Have No Right: Jane Webb’s Story Out of the Box: Notes for the Archives @ Library of Virginia Virginia Memory: Library of Virginia 2012-11-14 Greg Crawford, Local Records Coordinator The colonial era Northampton County court records tell a fascinating story of a woman named Jane Webb. Born of a white mother, she was a…
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In a 1943 letter to local registrars, clerks, and legislators, Plecker asserted, “[T]here does not exist today a descendant of Virginia ancestors claiming to be an Indian who is unmixed with negro blood.”
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Life Stories, Local Places, and the Networks of Free Women of Color in Early North America 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 72 Friday, 2013-01-04: 08:30-10:00 CST (Local Time) Preservation Hall, Studio 7 (New Orleans Marriott) Chair: Daina Ramey Berry, University of Texas, Austin Papers:…
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Children of Empire: The Fate of Mixed-Race Individuals in British India, the Caribbean, and the Early American Republic 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 105: North American Conference on British Studies Friday, 2013-01-04, 10:30-12:00 CST (Local Time) Chamber Ballroom III (Roosevelt New Orleans) Chair: Kathleen…
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Is Elizabeth Warren an Indian? The Aporetic 2012-09-27 Mike O’Malley The question posed above is extremely hard to answer. She doesn’t “look like an indian.” But what do Indians look like? Just to recap: Elizabeth Warren is running for the Senate in Massachusetts. She’s been widely mocked for claiming herself as “native American” at various…