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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Kafka’s Blues: Figurations of Racial Blackness in the Construction of an Aesthetic Northwestern University Press June 2016 184 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8101-3286-3 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8101-3285-6 E-book ISBN: 978-0-8101-3287-0 Mark Christian Thompson, Associate Professor of English Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland Kafka’s Blues proves the startling thesis that many of Kafka’s major works engage…
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Africans in Medieval & Renaissance Art: Duke Alessandro de’ Medici Victoria and Albert Museum London, England, United Kingdom Portrait of Duke Alessandro de’ Medici, after Jacopo da Pontormo, Florence, Italy, about 1550. Museum no. CAI.171. Ionides Bequest Both of the objects highlighted here feature Alessandro de’ Medici (1511-37), the first Duke of Florence. It is…
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Sumter County, Fla., is Nation’s Oldest, Census Bureau Reports United States Census Bureau Washington, D.C. 2016-06-23 Release Number: CB16-107 Only County in Nation With Majority of Population Age 65 or Older JUNE 23, 2016 — The nation’s only county with a majority of the population age 65 or older remains Sumter, Fla., where 54.8 percent…
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For Independence Day, a Look at Thomas Jefferson’s Egregious Hypocrisy The Scientific American 2016-07-01 John Horgan “While many of his contemporaries, including George Washington, freed their slaves during and after the revolution—inspired, perhaps, by the words of the Declaration–Jefferson did not,” historian Paul Finkelman writes. “Jefferson also “dodged opportunities to undermine slavery or promote racial…
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Poet Jackie Kay recites her first commission as Scots Makar at Opening Ceremony The Scottish Parliament 2016-07-02 The poet, Jackie Kay has recited her first commission as Scots Makar, “Threshold”, at today’s Opening Ceremony of the Scottish Parliament.
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‘Free State of Jones’ leader Newt Knight in his own words The New Orleans Times-Picayune 2016-06-24 James Karst, Senior Editor A photograph of Newton Knight from the New Orleans Item on March 20, 1921. This interview with Newton Knight of Mississippi was originally published in the March 20, 1921, edition of the New Orleans Item.…
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An Undocumented, Unofficial Indian Indian Country Today Media Network 2014-09-06 Chris Bethmann I remember a friend saying to me once, “Chris, you’re not a real Indian. And if you are, you’re the whitest Indian I know.” At the time, I shrugged it off, thinking to myself that he just didn’t understand the complex world of…
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Mary Seacole statue: Why Florence Nightingale fans are angry the Crimean War nurse is being commemorated The Independent 2016-06-27 Kashmira Gander Some Florence Nightingale experts say Mary Seacole isn’t a nurse It should be a symbol of pride in a black British heroine. Instead, a statue of Mary Seacole, to be unveiled on 30 June,…
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Charles Blow blows his horn in the New York Times Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2016-06-27 Victoria Bynum, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History Texas State University, San Marcos In today’s New York Times, opinion editor Charles Blow delivers a harsh critique of the movie, Free State of Jones, arguing that its treatment of slavery…