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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Letters from a Planter’s Daughter: Understanding Freedom and Independence in the Life of Susanna Townsend (1853-1869) The University of Alabama McNair Journal Volume 12 (Spring 2012) pages 145-174 R. Isabela Morales Wealthy Alabama cotton planter Samuel Townsend had already fathered eight children by the time Susanna Townsend was born in 1853—her mother, like all the…
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Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue Palgrave Macmillan June 2006 408 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7140-1, ISBN10: 1-4039-7140-4 Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-0-230-10837-0, ISBN10: 0-230-10837-7 John D. Garrigus, Associate Professor of History University of Texas, Arlington Winner of the Society for French Historical Studies 2007 Gilbert Chinard Prize!…
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Carolina Genesis: Beyond the Color Line Backintyme Publishing April 2010 258 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780939479320 Edited by Scott Withrow Borderlands of “Racial” Identity Some Americans pretend that a watertight line separates the “races.” But most know that millions of mixed-heritage families crossed from one “race” to another over the past four centuries. Every essay in…
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Professor Ira Berlin: Slavery U.S. History: Pre-Columbian to the New Millennium Meet the Historians 1999-04-12 Ira Berlin, Distinguished University Professor of History University of Maryland These renowned historians and experts chatted with students online. Read the transcripts. Ira Berlin is a leading historian of southern and African-American life. He is Professor of History at the…
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In America, race is a riddle. The stories we tell about our past have calcified into the fiction that we are neatly divided into black or white. It is only with the widespread availability of DNA testing and the boom in genealogical research that the frequency with which individuals and entire families crossed the color…
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For A Century, The First Underground Railroad Ran Slaves South To Florida (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post 2012-03-18 Bruce Smith, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. — While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the first clandestine path to freedom ran for more than a century…
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Spotlight on Jon Veilie: A Man on a Thirteen Year Mission The Modern American Volume 1, Issue 1 (Spring 2005) Article 8 pages 22-23 Lydia Edwards It all started one month after he passed the bar. Sylvia Davis, a black Seminole, came to Jon for help. She had been to many lawyers already. She told…
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Catholic records of slave baptisms in colonial New Orleans go online New Orleans Times-Picayune 2011-02-01 Bruce Nolan, Beat Reporter On Sunday, the 6th of May, 1798, an enslaved New Orleans woman named only Manon, owned by Mr. LeBlanc, presented her 2-year-old child, Antoine Joseph, at St. Louis Cathedral on the Plaza de Armas to be…