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: October 2011
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In the South, regardless of hair-splitting dictionary or legal definitions, it is customary to regard as negro any person who is known to have any negro blood in his veins; this despite the fact that the Supreme Court of Louisiana has lately handed down a decision restricting the term “negro” to those having a greater…
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THE CONGRESS: Black’s White TIME Magazine 1938-01-24 To Negro Lee Jones, a 31-year-old mill-hand of Greensboro, Ala., last week’s doings in the U. S. Senate were good news. Negro Jones had been arrested, charged with jumping on the running board of a car to kidnap Mrs. Robert Knox Greene, wife of a white planter. When…
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Science: Savants TIME Magazine 1924-08-18 Women’s barber shops call themselves beauty parlors. Drug stores call themselves ice cream parlors. Clerks call themselves salesmen. Politicians call themselves statesmen. Flappers call themselves young ladies. But scientists call themselves scientists, and only newspapers call them savants. But the word “savants” has been spread in the headlines of newspapers…
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Mammy versus mulatta: A rhetorical analysis of the act of passing and the influence of controlling images in Fannie Hurst’s “Imitation of Life” Arizona State University May 2010 189 pages Publication Number: AAT 3407107 ISBN: 9781109743265 Allison Parker A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy Fannie Hurst’s…
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Métis/Mulâtre, Mulato, Mulatto, Negro, Moreno, Mundele Kaki, Black,… The Wanderings and Meanderings of Identities Chapter in: Problematizing Blackness: Self Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States Routledge 2003-09-30 240 pages Edited by Jean Muteba Rahier, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African & African Diaspora Studies Florida International University Percey C. Hintzen, Professor of African…
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What being mixed race has taught me MsAfropolitan: the cosmopolitan African woman 2011-01-26 Minna Salami It’s a shame that we black people are the ones that analyse and debate race and racism the most. If society was as post-racial as some try to claim, then I believe that it is white people that should be…
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Medieval black Briton found The Times of London 2010-05-02 Gillian Passmore A SKELETON uncovered in the ruins of a friary is the earliest physical evidence of a black person living in Britain in medieval times. The remains of a man, found in the friary in Ipswich, Suffolk, which was destroyed by Henry VIII, have…