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 2013
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What’s History Got to Do with It? Evolving Classifications of Race Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Othmer Library Saturday, 2014-01-25, 15:00-18:00 EST (Local Time) Part Three of the reading series Quantifying Bloodlines How did historical distinctions emerge, such as: mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, creole, 1/16th Native American…? What is the one-drop rule? Why do…
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What’s Purity Got to Do with It? Searching Family History and Genealogy Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Othmer Library Saturday, 2013-12-07, 15:00-18:00 EST (Local Time) Part Two of the reading series Quantifying Bloodlines How do stories help us to understand the ways in which we dissect lineage? Bring in your own family tree,…
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Black Seminoles and The Underground Railroad AC Bilbrew Library 150 E. El Segundo Blvd. Los Angeles, California 90061 310-538-3350 Saturday, 2013-11-23, 14:30 PST (Local Time) Phil Wilkes Fixico Celebrate Native American Heritage Month by exploring the history of free Blacks and fugitive slaves who escaped to Florida between the 1600s and 1800s, forging alliances with…
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Afternoon Talk: Dr. Zélie Asava (Free Event) Irish Film Institute 6 Eustace Street Temple Bar Dublin, Ireland 2013-10-11, 16:30 IST (Local Time) Zélie Asava, Lecturer and Programme Director of Video and Film Dundalk Institute of Technology, Louth, Ireland In our Afternoon Talk on October 11th (16.30), Dr. Zélie Asava, Programme Director of Video and Film at…
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The Rise and Demise of the Gens De Couleur Libre Artists in Antebellum New Orleans University of Florida 2012 173 pages Karen Burt Coker A THESIS PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS The gens de couleur libres of…
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The mixing of races in Saint Domingue occasioned a plethora of commentaries, mostly venomous and polemical, on the causes and consequences of the colony’s multiracial order. The most famous of these commentaries, though not the most polemical, was by Moreau de Saint-Méry, the colonial jurist and historian whose writings on Saint-Domingue are still a major…
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Bringing Black History Home CUNY Newswire The City University of New York 2011-04-15 Antoinette Martignoni, left, and her granddaughter Greta Blau hold a family Bible that contains the name of their ancestor, Dr. James McCune Smith, the nation’s first African American physician at Martignoni’s home in Fairfield, Conn., Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)…
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Rheinland 2013 Mokoari Street Productions Berlin, Germany Written and directed by Lemohang J. Mosese Produced by Hannah Stockmann, Julius B. Franklin & Christian Wagner During the first World War the French government forced African men—many coming from Senegal or Cameroon —from their colonies to fight for the French army in the Rheinland. In 1919, there…
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The Chinese in Mexico: No Longer a Forgotten History Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-10-09, 21:00Z (17:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles On Today’s episode of Mixed Race Radio we will meet Professor Robert Chao Romero. With…