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: November 2011
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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…
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From Barefoot Madonna to Maggie the Ripper Kendall Blog Kendall College of Art and Design Ferris State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan 2011-11-07 Pamela Patton, Editor Kendall Portfolio Margaret Garner or The Modern Medea (1867) I always find lectures by visiting art historians fascinating. Looking at works of art in historical context, examining the details, and hearing…
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Advertising “Interraciality” and “Multiraciality” In ObamaLand—Representations and Images in Kohl’s, Macy’s, Sears, Wal-Mart, etc. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the 34th Annual National Council for Black Studies Sheraton New Orleans Hotel New Orleans, Louisiana 2010-03-17 William Berry This study examined the representation and contextualization of interraciality and multiraciality in newspaper advertising supplements .…