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: July 23, 2015
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Newton Knight– abolitionist guerrilla leader in Mississippi Workers World 2015-07-22 Paul Wilcox A hidden history of the Civil War Ever hear of the First Alabama Cavalry, or the name Newton Knight? Not likely. The capitalist media have always promoted stories of “former Confederate soldiers” who loyally served the Confederacy, loved Gen. Robert E. Lee, had…
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Q&A “Blaxicans of L.A.”: capturing two cultures in one The Los Angeles Times 2015-07-21 Ebony Bailey When race in this country is often discussed in black and white, where do those who don’t quite fit the dime fall?. Walter Thompson-Hernandez, a researcher with the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration at USC, is attempting…
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First African-American woman novelist revisited Harvard University Gazette Cambridge, Massachusetts 2005-03-24 Ken Gewertz, Harvard News Office Harriet Wilson was a survivor. Now we have proof. Wilson wrote “Our Nig; or Sketches From the Life of A Free Black,” the earliest known novel by an African-American woman. It tells the story of Frado, a young biracial…
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For the 150th anniversary of its first publication, a new edition of the pioneering African-American classic, reflecting groundbreaking discoveries about its author’s life