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: Media Archive
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How did a female skull lead to “Caucasians”?
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On today’s show, we get the background on the Lovings’ relationship, a brief history of miscegenation law, and how the Loving’s legal battle changed the United States forever.
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Blurring the Lines of Race and Freedom: Mulattoes in English Colonial North America and the Early United States Republic University of California at Berkeley Spring 2013 183 pages Aaron B. Wilkinson A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History This project investigates people of mixed…
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“With his acting experience and technical know-how, Young Deer soon advanced to one of Pathé’s leading filmmakers. His Indian identity served him well: no one in the cast or crew at that time would have taken orders from a black man.”
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Currently in its 37th year, the President’s Writing Awards contest honors undergraduate writing at Boise State.
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In 1853, Samuel Codes Watson became the first black student admitted to the University of Michigan at a time where higher education for African Americans was nearly impossible. Now, Tylonn Sawyer is bringing more awareness to Watson’s story through a work of art.
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Set against the landscape of Southern California, where wide, wild expanses mingle with segregated sprawl, written from the viewpoint of a woman in a multiracial family, “There Will Be No More Daughters” has one foot planted in the firm realities of patriarchal domination, racial unbelonging, sex, death, and intergenerational alcoholism—and another in vivid flights of…
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Writing about their experiences as biracial African Americans, Raboteau and Senna show readers how memorialization of black southern experience connects with communal or inherited familial memories.
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Queues formed at the GPO earlier for fans to get their hands on the new stamps.