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: July 2012
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Born of a Palestinian father and a British mother, Rezak has always been intrigued by the different worlds from which his parents came. His father’s ancestors were highwaymen on the Arabian Peninsula in the eighteenth century.
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Governor Northen says that miscegenation by law will never, take place in the south. But miscegenation in the south has already taken place. It has been on the road over 200 years. Not miscegenation by law, but by brute force, which is the very worst form of law. Who started it? Not the negroes, I…
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Black GIs, English women, and ‘brown babies’ (1944-1950) Mix-d: Museum: Timeline Mix-d: 2012-07-10 During the period 1942-45 around one million US servicemen were based in England as part of the preparations for the invasion of Europe in June 1944 and around 130,000 (13%) of these were Black (African American) GIs. This caused endless worry for…
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Speaking of morals, you asked me what effect the female population of mixed blood was going to have on society here [in Charleston, South Carolina]. I have looked somewhat into the matter since my return, from what I can learn, I believe there is hardly a young man here of Southern birth, who can afford…
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Estimating Genetic Ancestry Proportions from Faces PLoS ONE Volume 4, Number 2, e4460 (February 2009) 8 pages DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004460 Yann C. Klimentidis Department of Biostatistics University of Alabama, Birmingham Mark D. Shriver, Associate Professor of Anthropology Pennsylvania State University Ethnicity can be a means by which people identify themselves and others. This type of identification…
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The report provides a bleak assessment of life in post-war South Carolina, particularly for union men and blacks who “are at the mercy of a set of wretches, as unprincipled as they are cruel.”
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Michelle’s Great-Great-Great-Granddaddy—and Yours The Root 2009-10-08 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research Harvard University First Lady Michelle Obama’s maternal third-great-grandfather was a white man who fathered Melvinia Shields’ (her maternal third great-grandmother) son, Dolphus T. Shields, both slaves.…
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A Sad Case Of Miscegenation Valley Spirit (source: Pittsburgh Post) Franklin County, Virginia 1867-02-06 page 1, column 8 Source: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library The piece relates the story of a woman, who, after consenting to marry a returning white Union officer, had an affair with a black…