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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How Green Was My Surname; Via Ireland, a Chapter in the Story of Black America The New York Times 2003-03-17 S. Lee Jamison Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Shaquille O’Neal! So many African-Americans have Irish-sounding last names—Eddie Murphy, Isaac Hayes, Mariah Carey, Dizzy Gillespie, Toni Morrison, H. Carl McCall—that you would think that the long story…
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Why It Was Easy for Rachel Dolezal to Pass as Black Pacific Standard 2015-06-15 Lisa Wade, Associate Professor of Sociology Occidental College, Los Angeles, California Race is more social than biological. Source: (1)ne Drop Project Earlier this year a CBS commentator in a panel with Jay Smooth embarrassingly revealed that she thought he was white…
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The many faces of Frederick Douglass Democrat and Chronicle Rochester, New York 2015-12-25 Jim Memmott, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English University of Rochester, Rochester, New York Portrait of Frederick Douglass taken November 3, 1882 by John Howe Kent, 24 State Street, Rochester, New York (Photo: Courtesy of the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and…
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A Romance of the Republic University Press of Kentucky 2014-07-11 (Originally published in 1867) 464 pages 6 x 9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8131-0928-2 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8131-4910-3 Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) Edited by: Dana D. Nelson, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee A Romance of the Republic, published in 1867, was Lydia…
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The Invention of the White Race, Volume 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America Verso Books November 2012 (Originally published in August, 1997) 422 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781844677702 Ebook ISBN: 9781844678440 Theodore W. Allen (1919-2005) Introduction and notes by Jeffrey B. Perry Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America. On the steps…
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb: An American Slave Lushena Books 2014-02-20 (Originally published in 1849) 104 pages 0.2 x 4.9 x 7.9 inches Paperback ISBN-10: 1631820060 Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1631820069 Henry Bibb (1815-1854) Read the entire narrative, courtesy of Documenting the American South (DocSouth) here.
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Leaving to learn Columbia Daily Spectator 2015-12-02 Claire Liebmann Courtesy of Karl Jacoby Several years ago while browsing newspaper clippings online, Karl Jacoby, a history professor at Columbia, came across the story of William Ellis—a Texan slave who built a million dollar fortune while posing as a Mexican millionaire in New York, essentially hacking the…
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National Affairs: Who Would Be King Time 1923-10-08 Word came to the U. S. that William Henry Ellis, who preferred to style himself Guillermo Enrique Eliseo, died in Mexico City. Mr. Ellis was one of the most remarkable men who ever acted as agent for the State Department. He was known chiefly for the famous…
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The Quadroon; or, A Lover’s Adventures In Louisiana Robert M. DeWitt 1856 430 pages Captain Mayne Reid (1818-1883) Read the entire book here.
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A monumental moment in the history of the United States will be celebrated in December when the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery at the close of the Civil War, turns 150 years old. But despite the passage of time, the U.S. continues to struggle with racial inequality.