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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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs (review) Journal of Southern History Volume 82, Number 2, May 2016 pages 465-466 DOI: 10.1353/soh.2016.0107 Wilma King, Professor Emerita of History University of Missouri A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life. By Allyson Hobbs. (Cambridge, Mass., and…
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This debate over “who counts” has created somewhat of an identity crisis in the black community, exposing a divide between those who think being black should be based on physical looks, and those who think being black is more than looks.
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LC lecturer looks back on landmark court case on mixed-race marriage The News & Advance Lynchburg, Virginia 2017-02-22 Josh Moody Today Americans enjoy the Constitutional right to marry regardless of race — but it wasn’t always so, and landmark Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia can be thanked for breaking down that barrier. The famous…
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Before Loving, there was Kinney in Augusta County The News Leader Staunton, Virginia 2017-01-08 Dale M. Brumfield, Special to The News Leader “By the laws of Virginia (C. V. 1873, ch. 105, § 1), all marriages between a white person and a negro are absolutely void…” —Kinney v. Commonwealth, Oct. 3, 1878, Supreme Court of…
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I heard of Adrienne Dawes when a show that talked about Mexican identity called Casta came on my radar. I knew that I had to connect with her. She is a boss writer and the head of a production company called Heckle Her. She is the mastermind behind dope shows like Doper than Dope, Am…
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Too Black for the adoption agencies but not Black enough for the political campaigners. On growing up an adoptee of mixed heritage in Britain.
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‘Loving’ and Virginia: a timeline of mixed-race marriage The Richmond Times-Dispatch 2017-02-19 The movie “Loving” tells the story of a mixed-race Caroline County couple – and an important story about Virginia itself. We asked the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities for some insight into Richard and Mildred Loving, as well as state history. Here is a…
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My name is Sally Jacobs and I am a reporter doing a project for WGBH radio in Boston on interracial marriage in connection with the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing the practice. I am looking for couples in New England (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont) who have a…