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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Deconstructing a Manumission Document: Mary Stafford’s Free Paper The Georgia Historical Quarterly Volume 89, Number 3 (Fall 2005) pages 285-317 Mary R. Bullard This article examines the manumission document of Mary Stafford. In early nineteenth-century Georgia, manumitting one’s slave property was a personal matter loosely regulated by the state. In exchange for a one dollar…
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A Contested Presence: Free Blacks in Antebellum Mississippi, 1820–1860 Mississippi History Now: An online publication of the Mississippi Historical Society August 2000 Denoral Davis, Profesor of History Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi During its first half century as a territory and state (1810-1860), Mississippi was an agrarian-frontier society. Its population was made up of four…
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Manumission in nineteenth-century Virginia Cliometrica: A Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History Volume 5, Issue 2 (June 2011) pages 145-164 DOI: 10.1007/s11698-010-0056-x Howard Bodenhorn, Professor of Economics Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina Using previously unexploited data, this paper explores the ages at which slaves were manumitted. OLS estimates reveal that mixed-race slaves, slaves in…
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Just Finished Reading: Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South Random Thoughts on History: My musings on American, African American, Southern, Civil War, Reconstruction, and Public History topics and books. 2012-04-17 Tim Talbott Frankfort, Kentucky The practice of slavery created many complications. Not the least of these were the children produced by relationships…
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Norbert Rillieux and a Revolution in Sugar Processing American Chemical Society National Historic Chemical Landmarks: Norbert Rillieux and a Revolution in Sugar Processing 2002 Judah Ginsberg Portrait of Norbert Rillieux (undated). Dedicated April 18, 2002 at Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana Norbert Rillieux: Chemist and Engineer The birth record on file in New Orleans…
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Science of desire: Race and representations of the Haitian revolution in the Atlantic world, 1790-1865 University of Notre Dame July 2008 489 pages Publication Number: AAT 3436234 ISBN: 9781124353197 Marlene Leydy Daut, Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of…
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City’s black founding father Decator Daily Decatur, Alabama 2010-04-19 Deangelo McDaniel, Staff Writer Minister, historian reconstructing life of ex-slave who became successful farmer First in a two-part series The Rev. Wylheme Ragland would like to spend one day with Robert Murphy. So would local historian Peggy Allen Towns. “Just one day,” Ragland said emphatically. “Just…
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Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000 Oxford University Press May 2004 304 pages 15 illus. & 3 maps; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 Hardback ISBN13: 9780195152326; ISBN10: 0195152328 Paperback ISBN13: 978-0-19-515233-3; ISBN10: 0-19-515233-6 George Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor of History University of Pittsburgh Winner of the Arthur P. Whitaker Prize of the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies While…