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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Duncan McDonald: Flathead Indian Reservation Leader and Cultural Broker, 1849-1937 University of Nebraska Press 2016-03-31 256 pages 28 illustrations, 6 maps, index Paperback ISBN: 978-1-934594-15-5 Robert Bigart, Librarian Emeritus Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana Joseph McDonald, President Emeritus (and grandnephew of Duncan McDonald) Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana Duncan McDonald (1849–1937) led a remarkable life…
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A Family That Pushed Racial Boundaries Through Generations The New York Times 2017-01-27 Caitlin Dickerson, National Reporter From left: Blake, Jared, Bryan and Deborah Treadwell, photographed in Eastham, Mass. Credit Erik Jacobs for The New York Times When Lizzie Connor kissed her husband goodbye and hopped on a train at Grand Central Depot, The New…
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MARRIED TO A NEGRO. The New York Times Thursday, 1885-05-14 Page 8, column 5 A few days ago passengers waiting in the New-Haven Railroad rooms at the Grand Central Station were surprised at the attention paid a young white woman by a colored man, who was dressed in the height of fashion. They were more…
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‘Hidden’ no more: Katherine Johnson, a black NASA pioneer, finds acclaim at 98 The Washington Post 2017-01-27 Victoria St. Martin Fame has finally found Katherine Johnson — and it only took a half-century, six manned moon landings, a best-selling book and an Oscar-nominated movie. For more than 30 years, Johnson worked as a NASA mathematician…
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The future is mixed-race Aeon 2017-02-02 Scott Solomon, Professor in the Practice Department of BioSciences Rice University, Houston, Texas Edited by Sam Dresser A grandmother and granddaughter from Cape Verde. Photo by O. Louis Mazzatenta/National Geographic And so is the past. Migration and mingling are essential to human success in the past, the present and…
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Iconic Fine Arts Sculptor Edmonia Lewis Honored In Google Doodle The Huffington Post 2017-02-01 Zahara Hill, Black Voices Editorial Fellow Sophie Diao The artist’s dedication to portraying her African-American and Native-American ancestry separated her from other sculptors. Black History Month began with the art of this lesser-known black icon. In honor of the start of…
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Auschwitz to Rwanda: The link between science, colonialism and genocide Mail & Guardian Africa Johannesburg, South Africa 2017-02-01 Heike Becker Sixty years later, the recurrent connections of science and genocide still demonstrate the dark underbelly of Western modernity in Africa, Europe, and the world. (Reuters/Finbarr O’Reilly) Significant links connect racial science in colonial southern Africa…