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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Letter, W. A. Plecker to A. T. Shields. 9 May 1925. Typescript. Commonwealth of Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics Richmond, Virginia 1925-05-09 Source: Rockbridge County (Va.) Clerk’s Correspondence [Walter A. Plecker to A.T. Shields], 1912-1943. Local Government Records Collection, Rockbridge County Court Records. The Library of Virginia. 10-0477-003. In a letter to A.T. Shields, Walter…
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The Crime of Being Married Life Magazine 1966-03-18 pages 85- Source: Library of Virginia Photographs by Grey Villet A Virginia couple fights to overturn an old law against miscegenation She is Negro, he is white, and they are married. This puts them in a kind of legal purgatory in their home state of Virginia, which…
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The New Virginia Law To Preserve Racial Integrity Virginia Health Bulletin Virginia Department of Health Volume XVI, Extra Number 2 (March 1924) pages 1-4 Source: Pamphlet: Rockbridge County Clerk’s Correspondence, 1912–1943. Local Government Records Collection. The Library of Virginia, (Racial Integrity Act Documents) 12-1245-005 W. A. Plecker, M. D. State Registrar of Vital Statistics, Richmond,…
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‘Master’ Jefferson: Defender Of Liberty, Then Slavery Fresh Air from WHYY National Public Radio 2012-10-18 Maureen Corrigan, Book Critic His public words have inspired millions, but for scholars, his private words and deeds generate confusion, discomfort, apologetic excuses. When the young Thomas Jefferson wrote, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are…
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Thomas Jefferson advertises for a runaway slave in Williamsburg’s newspaper The Virginia Gazette Williamsburg, Virginia 1769-09-14 Source: Library of Congress: Thomas Jefferson: Creating a Virginia Republic Courtesy of the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virgiania Runaway slaves were not unknown on the Jefferson plantations. In this 1769 advertisement Thomas Jefferson, who had inherited half of his…
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Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves Farrar, Straus and Giroux an imprint of Macmillan 2012-10-16 352 pages Hardback ISBN-10: 0374299560; ISBN-13: 978-0374299569 Henry Wiencek Is there anything new to say about Thomas Jefferson and slavery? The answer is a resounding yes. Master of the Mountain, Henry Wiencek’s eloquent, persuasive book—based on new…
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Making The Application Valley Spirit Franklin County, Virginia 1867-10-02 page 1, column 8 Source: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library Relates a ficticious story about a conversation between two white men, one Republican the other Democrat, in which the consequences of black suffrage are discussed. Several days ago a…
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Law and the Boundaries of Place and Race in Interracial Marriage: Interstate Comity, Racial Identity, and Miscegenation Laws in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, 1860s-1960s Akron Law Review Volume 32, Number 3 (1999) pages 557-575 Peter Wallenstein, Professor of History Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University In North Carolina in 1869, Wesley Hairston, a…