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: Slavery
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Meet one of the most influential men in the United States’ history of emancipation and Black rights.
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Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica University of Pennsylvania Press June 2017 328 Pages 6.00 x 9.00 in, 10 illus. Hardcover ISBN: 9780812249187 Paperback ISBN: 9780812224603 eBook ISBN: Sasha Turner, Associate Professor of History The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in…
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‘Moral electricity’: Melvil-Bloncourt and the trans-Atlantic struggle for abolition and equal rights
Little known to historians, the Guadeloupean-born antislavery and equal rights activist Sainte-Suzanne Melvil-Bloncourt exemplified the complex trans-Atlantic networks forged for the abolitionist cause across the nineteenth century.
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The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as “his” slave.
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An escaped slave navigates the white world in a suspenseful bid for freedom.
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A stunning counternarrative of the legendary abolitionist Grimke sisters that finally reclaims the forgotten Black members of their family.
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At the inaugural Belinda Sutton Distinguished Lecture, Johns Hopkins Professor Martha Jones chronicles her journey into her family’s ties to slavery and to Harvard
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Here to help us understand Juneteenth’s history is Zebulon Miletsky, an Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History at Stony Brook University.
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Kristen Green’s The Devil’s Half Acre recounts the story of a fugitive slave jail, and the enslaved woman, Mary Lumpkin, who came to own it.
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A Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings’ family explores America’s racial reckoning through the prism of her ancestors—both the enslaver and the enslaved.