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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Eugenics and Mongrelization [Letter and Response] The Eugenics Review Volume 32, Number 1 (April 1940) pages 28-30 To the Editor, Eugenics Review SIR, In order that the eugenics movement shall advance successfully, the eugenics organizations must dissociate their endeavours from the widespread propaganda for race amalgamation and mongrelization. There is little wisdom in breeding selectively among…
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“Transnational Crossroads” explores and triangulates for the first time the interactions and contacts among these three cultural groups that were brought together by the expanding American empire from 1867 to 1950.
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Bridgetower – Black Musicians and British Culture, 1807-2007 Gresham College 2007-07-02 Mike Phillips, Professor of Music Gresham College George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower, the son of an Abyssinian slave, was hailed as a musical prodigy in the eighteenth century. Taught by Haydn, his appearance at the court in Windsor to play in front of George III…
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Statistics On Miscegenation Franklin Repository 1864-04-27 page 1, column 6 Source: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library Summary: The Repository details the disproportionate number of “mulattoes” in the South relative to the North. Full Text of Article: There were 411,613 mulatto slaves in the south in 1840, of whom…
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(No Title) Franklin Repository 1863-12-09 page 4, Column 4 Source: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library Summary: Argues that “amalgamation” is common in the South and “very rare” in the North. A Southern correspondent concerned with the number of mixed marriages occurring wanted “amalgamation” outlawed. The Repository claims that…
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A Very Sad Occurrence Staunton Vindicator 1869-08-27 page 3, Column 2 Source: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library Summary: The paper prints an account of the killing of Jacob Scherer by John Stanley. Stanley had been co-habiting with a woman of mixed race. Scherer led a party to break…
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The American Race Semi-Weekly Dispatch Franklin County, Virginia 1861-05-17 page 1, Column 3 Source: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library Summary: Reasons that America’s population has increased by one-third in the past ten years because of the intermarriage in the United States of the races of Celts, Teutons, Anglo-Saxons,…
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The 2012 Lorraine W. Frank Lecture & Humanities Awards: Featuring Rita Dove Arizona Humanities Council Tempe Mission Palms 60E. 5th Street Tempe, Arizona 85281 2012-04-12 Free & Open to the Public In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Arizona Humanities Council is proud to present Rita Dove as the keynote speaker for the 2012 Lorraine…