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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The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts by Amber D. Moulton (review) The Journal of the Civil War Era Volume 6, Number 4, December 2016 pages 594-596 DOI: 10.1353/cwe.2016.0075 Tamika Y. Nunley, Assistant Professor of History Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts. By Amber D. Moulton.…
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Descendants Of Native American Slaves In New Mexico Emerge From Obscurity All Things Considered National Public Radio 2016-12-29 John Burnett, Southwest Correspondent, National Desk Santo Tomas Catholic church in Abiquiu, N.M., is the site of an annual saint’s day celebration in late November that includes cultural elements of the genizaros, the descendants of Native American…
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Escaping slavery, one family’s story Free Press Newspapers Illinois 2016-12-14 Sandy Vasko, Executive Director Will County Historical Society Black history in Braidwood starts during the coal strikes of the 1870s. Before that time the only black people this area knew were passing through on the Underground Railroad. Or did they? As I have learned, not…
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THE CREATION OF The Intercept, and then the Intercept Brasil, was motivated by a core purpose: to provide crucial journalism and commentary that, for whatever reasons, is not being adequately provided to the public. We are especially thrilled to announce the arrival of Ana Maria Gonçalves as our new columnist because her work so powerfully…
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The Distinction Between Slavery and Race in U.S. History African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) 2016-11-27 Patrick Rael, Professor of History Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine The history of the Electoral College is receiving a lot of attention. Pieces like this one, which explores “the electoral college and its racist roots,” remind us how deeply race…
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This article examines two paintings from the antebellum period, “The Slave Market” (ca. 1859) by an unidentified artist and “The Freedom Ring” (1860) by Eastman Johnson, which involve the purchase of nearly white slaves, and attempts to delineate the motivation for presenting these images before the public. These paintings functioned much as slave narratives, and…
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself, Critical Edition
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself, Critical Edition Yale University Press 2016-10-25 264 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 7 b/w illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9780300204711 Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) Edited by: John R. McKivigan, Mary O’Brien Gibson Professor of History Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis Peter P. Hinks Heather L. Kaufman,…