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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Voices of Slavery: ‘They Were Saving Me For a Breeding Woman’ This Cruel War: An Evidence-Based Exploration of the Civil War, its Causes and Repercussions 2016-08-25 Virginian Luxuries, artist unknown. c1825. During 1929 and 1930, an Africa-American scholar named Ophelia Settle Egypt, conducted nearly 100 interviews with former slaves. Working then at Fisk University, she…
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This article discuss how the Brazilian example was debated and appropriated by politicians, scientists, and other members of the white US elite, who in the post-abolition period were preparing a nation project which maintained the old slaveholding ideologies of white supremacy and racial segregation, lasting in the country until the twentieth century.
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Town founded by freed slaves celebrates 200 years USA Today 2016-07-09 Joey Garrison, Metro and Political Reporter The Tennessean, Nashville, Tennessee FREE HILL, Tenn. — Tucked away in the wooded hallows and ridges north of Celina, Tenn., in the Upper Cumberland region, freed slaves and later their descendants have lived here for two centuries. The…
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Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds explores how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race, slavery, and gender in the early modern period.
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Born a Slave: Rediscovering Arthur Jackson’s African American Heritage The Orderly Pack Rat 2015-04-25 328 pages 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-0970430816 David W. Jackson By the close of the Civil War in 1865 all American slaves became free citizens. Suddenly a new life dawned for them and their descendants. Arthur Jackson,…
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Putting The Past Behind Them: Slave Descendant Unites With Plantation Owner Growing Wisconsin 2016-07-13 Lynne Hayes The dinner was historic on many levels. On one side of the table sat Nkrumah Steward, 44, the ancestor of a slave. On the other side of the table sat Robert Adams, the ancestor of the man who owned…
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Free State of Jones Capsizes Lost Cause Myths Process: A Blog For American History 2016-07-12 Matthew E. Stanley, Assistant Professor of History Albany State University, Albany, Georgia Reconstruction is perhaps the least understood period in American history, a distinction that has been both perpetuated by and reflected in popular culture since the late nineteenth century.…
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A Mixed-Race, Mixed-Marriage Cumbo Family Website: Exploring Cumbo Family Roots and Branches across Generations 2016-05-06 Andre Kearns Washington, D.C. My great-great grandparents Edward Biggs and Florence Cumbo were both listed as Colored on their 1890 marriage license. So why am I classifying their union as a mixed marriage? It is because Edward Biggs was born…
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The Real Rebels: A Review of Free State of Jones with Reflections on Lost Causes The Labor And Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) 2016-07-12 Mark Lause, Professor of History University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio I can feel a certain sympathy for people who get hoodwinked into fighting for a Lost Cause that could never be worthy…
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‘Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings’ reimagines difficult history The Chicago Tribune 2016-07-23 Meredith Maran “Until the lions have their own historians,” says an African proverb, “the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” The proverb offers one answer to a question that has long plagued writers, activists and historians. Who gets to…