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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Exploring the geographies, genealogies, and concepts of race and gender of the African diaspora produced by the Atlantic slave trade
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Father Healy’s Imprint: Past, Present and Future The Hoya Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 2004-11-09 Moises Mendoza Every day thousands of students pass by Healy Hall and marvel at its towering steeples and complex intricacies. Few of them realize that the man responsible for this Georgetown trademark was every bit as complex and dynamic as the…
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QUALLEN: Healy’s Inner Turmoil, Our Current Conflict The Hoya Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 2015-11-20 Matthew Quallen, “Hoya Historian” School of Foreign Service Last week, President DeGioia accepted a recommendation to scrub the names Mulledy and McSherry from university buildings. The names Freedom and Remembrance took their places. Mulledy and McSherry symbolized what was most odious…
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A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia, by Richard Dunn The English Historical Review Volume 130, Issue 547, December 2015 pages 1575-1577 DOI: 10.1093/ehr/cev299 Trevor Burnard, Professor of History University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia, by…
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When Ancestry Search Led To Escaped Slave: ‘All I Could Do Was Weep’ Fresh Air (From WHYY in Philadelphia) National Public Radio 2016-01-18 Terry Gross, Host When she was in fifth grade, Regina Mason received a school assignment that would change her life: to connect with her country of origin. That night, she went home…
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The first fugitive slave narrative in American history
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The Free State of Jones Movie to be released May 13, 2016 Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2016-01-05 Vikki Bynum, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History Texas State University, San Marcos The Free State of Jones Movie poster Victoria E. Bynum is author of the book The Free State of Jones, Movie Edition: Mississippi’s Longest…
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As they have in the past, the conservative truth spinners behind the online media outlet Breitbart News Network have initiated an attack against yet another person of color fighting for civil and human rights. The target this time is activist Shaun King, who has been vocal about the police abuse that has permeated our consciousness…