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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Day: June 7, 2012
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Librarian of Congress Appoints Natasha Trethewey Poet Laureate Library of Congress News from the Library of Congress 2012-06-07 Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today announced the appointment of Natasha Trethewey as the Library’s Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2012-2013. Trethewey, the 19th Poet Laureate, will take up her duties in the fall, opening…
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Although race is void of biological foundation, it has a profound social reality. All too apparent are disparities in health and welfare. Despite all the evidence indicating that “race” has no biological or evolutionary meaning, the biological-race concept continues to gain strength today in science and society, and it is reinforced by those who design…
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Selected Poems by Natasha Trethewey The New York Times 2012-06-06 Poems by Natasha Trethewey, the newly named poet laureate. …PASTORAL In the dream, I am with the Fugitive Poets. We’re gathered for a photograph. Behind us, the skyline of Atlanta hidden by the photographer’s backdrop — a lush pasture, green, full of soft-eyed cows lowing,…
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The Origin of the Van Guilders History’s Faces 2012-05-25 Debra Winchell Recently the Associated Press published an article by Travis Loller saying that DNA study seeks the origin of Appalachia’s Melungeons. In a excerpt Mr. Loller wrote: In recent years, it has become a catchall term for people of mixed-race ancestry and has been applied…
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New Laureate Looks Deep Into Memory The New York Times 2012-06-06 Charles McGrath The Library of Congress is to announce Thursday that the next poet laureate is Natasha Trethewey, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of three collections and a professor of creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta. Ms. Trethewey, 46, was born in Gulfport, Miss.,…
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Some Anthropological Characteristics of Anglo-Negro Children The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Volume 73, Numbers 1/2 (1943) pages 57-73 K. L. Little, M.A., Ph.D. The Duckworth Laboratory University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge I. Introduction Although fairly large Negro communities have been in existence in Liverpool, Cardiff, London…