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 2014
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William Wells Brown: An African American Life W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. October 2014 624 pages 6.6 × 9.6 in Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-393-24090-0 Ezra Greenspan, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of English Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas A groundbreaking biography of the most pioneering and accomplished African-American writer of the nineteenth century.…
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Because the “presumption of freedom [arose] from color [white]” and the “black color of the race [raised] the presumption of slavery,” whiteness became a shield from slavery, a highly volatile and unstable form of property. In the form adopted in the United States, slavery made human beings market-alienable and in so doing, subjected human life…
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“The Box Marked Black” is coming to Willamette University Oct. 24-25 Willamette University News Salem, Oregon 2014-10-02 What does it mean to be black? Is it the shade of your skin or the kink in your hair? Is it learned? These questions are explored in “The Box Marked Black: Tales from a Halfrican American growing…
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Performance added for one-woman play at Willamette U. The Salem Statesman-Journal Salem, Oregon 2014-10-13 Tom Mayhall Rastrelli, Fine Arts & Culture Writer Damaris Webb will debut her one-woman play “The Box Marked Black: Tales from a Halfrican American growing up Mulatto. With sock puppets!” at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24 and 25 at M. Lee Pelton Theatre,…
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Revisiting Middlebury’s Racial History The Middlebury Campus Middlebury College Middlebury, Vermont 2014-03-19 Conor Grant, Managing Editor Alexander Twilight Hall, a building named in honor of Alexander Twilight of the class of 1823, is just one part of the complicated legacy of America’s first black college graduate. (Courtesy/Middlebury) Alexander Twilight Hall — the austere brick building…