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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The slaves imported from Africa by no means represented “pure Negro races.” Of the original tribal stocks, many had admixture of Caucasoid genes from crosses with Mediterranean peoples. During the slave trade more white genes were added. The Portuguese who settled on the Guinea Coast had relations with the natives. The slave traders themselves were…
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Ellen Craft: A New American Opera 8th Annual New York City International Fringe Festival 2004-08-13 through 2004-08-29 Lyrics by Sherry Boone Music: Sean Jeremy Palmer Book: Sherry Boone and Sean Jeremy Palmer Ellen Craft: A New American Opera is based on true events of a half -white, half-black womans harrowing escape from slavery disguised as…
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Published in 1860, shortly before the start of the Civil War,” Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom” is the narrative of William and Ellen Craft’s escape from slavery.
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‘No Such Thing as a Mulatto Slave’: Legal Pluralism, Racial Descent and the Nuances of Slave Women’s Sexual Vulnerability in the Legal Odyssey of Steyntje van de Kaap, c.1815-1822 Fiona Vernal Department of History University of Connecticut Slavery & Abolition Volume 29, Issue 1 January 2008 pages 23 – 47 DOI: 10.1080/01440390701841034 In 1815, a…
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It was with joy and fear that I finished Henry Wiencek’s breathtaking saga, “The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White.” Joy, in that I was introduced to such a compelling cast of characters, set within riveting contexts, drawn with insight and erudition, illuminated by vivid, narrative that pulls the reader toward the important…
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The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White St. Martin’s Press an imprint of Macmillan February 1999 ISBN: 978-0-312-25393-6 ISBN10: 0-312-25393-1 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 400 pages, Plus 16-page b&w photo insert Henry Wiencek Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The Hairstons is the extraordinary story of the largest family in America,…