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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Abraham Galloway is the Black figure from the Civil War you should know about All Things Considered National Public Radio 2022-02-08 Elizabeth Blair, Senior Producer/Reporter, Arts Desk Engraved portrait of Abraham Galloway from William Still’s The Underground Railroad, published in 1872. William Still’s ‘The Underground Railroad,’ 1872 He has been compared to James Bond and…
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The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves’ Civil War University of North Carolina Press September 2012 352 pages 17 halftones, 4 maps, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-2190-6 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8078-3812-9 David S. Cecelski AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS 2012 North Caroliniana Book Award, The North Caroliniana Society Ragan Old North State…
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Every 16th century Spanish expedition to Florida included Africans, both free and enslaved.
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“For the love of Jesus Christ, she had become the humble and devout servant of the slaves.”
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She ran boardinghouses whose lodgers included members of New York’s elite, raised money for an orphan asylum and was active in the abolitionists’ cause.
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The story of an enslaved man who became a Georgia state senator, helped found a church, and led his people to promise and hope
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Two leading scholars discuss the complex relationship between Black and Native people.
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Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of “40 acres and a mule”—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In “I’ve Been Here All the While,” we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this…