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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Month: January 2011
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Long Way Home: The Loving Story Augusta Films 2010 Director and Producer: Nancy Buirski Producer and Editor: Elisabeth Haviland James Richard and Mildred Loving, Circa 1967 This documentary feature film, currently in production, tells the dramatic story of Mildred and Richard Loving, a black and Cherokee woman married to a white man (against the law in…
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The Secret History of Race in the United States The Yale Law Journal Volume 112, Issue 6 (March 2003) pages 1473-1509 Daniel J. Sharfstein, Associate Professor of Law Vanderbilt University In the beginning, there was a man named Looney. George Looney’s world was Buchanan County, Virginia, a pocket of Appalachian hills and hollows that juts…
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American Triracial Isolates: Their Status and Pertinence to Genetic Research Eugenics Quarterly Volume 4, Issue 4 (December 1957) pages 187-196 (Curteousy of The Melungeon Heritage Assoication) Calvin L. Beale (1923-2008) United States Department of Agriculture In the 1950 Census of Population, 50,000 American Indians are listed as living in states east of the Mississippi River.…
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Telling Our Own Stories: Lumbee History and the Federal Acknowledgment Process The American Indian Quarterly Volume 33, Number 4, Fall 2009 pages 499-522 E-ISSN: 1534-1828, Print ISSN: 0095-182X Malinda Maynor Lowery, Assistant Professor of History University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Being part of and writing about the Lumbee community means that history always emerges…
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“What Ain’t Called Melungeons is Called Hillbillies”: Southern Appalachia’s In-Between People Forum for Modern Language Studies Volume 40, Issue 3 (2004) page 259-278 DOI: 10.1093/fmls/40.3.259 Rachel Rubin, Professor of American Studies University of Massachusetts, Boston The essay investigates literary evocations of Appalachia’s “in-between” people, the Melungeons. Melungeons are deployed by some as mystery (no one…
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A Free Man of Color [Theater Review] The Faster Times 2010-11-18 Johnathon Mandell Opening Date: 2010-11-18 Closing Date: 2011-01-09 Written by John Guare Directed by George C. Wolfe As “A Free Man of Color” begins, its hero, an ex-slave, is a bewigged, bejeweled fop who is the wealthiest and most sexually desirable man in New…
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UK in 2051 to be ‘significantly more diverse’ University of Leeds 2010-07-13 The ethnic makeup of the UK will change dramatically over the next 40 years, with the country becoming far more ethnically diverse and geographically integrated, according to new projections. In a report published this week, researchers from the University of Leeds predict that…
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The Quadroon Ball on stage one week only Oct. 13-17 [2010] Lone Star College The Woodlands, Texas 2010-09-22 Lone Star College-CyFair Drama Department presents Damon Wright’s play “The Quadroon Ball” on stage Oct. 13 through Oct. 17 [2010]. “The Quadroon Ball” is a moving drama taking place in New Orleans just prior to the Civil…
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This essay focuses on how immigrant mothers and second generation interracial daughters construct, perform, and negotiate racial and ethnic hybrid identities.
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The Great Unraveling [Book Review of “Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America”] The New York Times 2010-12-29 Raymond Arsenault, Visiting Scholar, Florida State University Study Center in London and John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History, University of South Florida Eugene Robinson, Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America (New York: Doubleday, 2010). When Henry Louis…