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: February 2016
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SPEECH OF Hon. Samuel S. Cox. ON MISCEGENATION AND SLAVERY: The Daily Ohio Statesman Columbus, Ohio 1864-02-23 Delivered in the House of Congress on Wednesday, February 17th, 1864. The Bill, To establish a Bureau of Freedmen’s Affairs, being under consideration, Mr. Cox had the floor and proceeded to speak. He first discussed some constitutional points that…
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Charles W. Chesnutt’s Stenographic Realism MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 40, Number 4, Winter 2015 pages 48-68 Mark Sussman Hunter College, City University of New York Speaking before a meeting of the Ohio Stenographer’s Association on 28 August 1889, Charles W. Chesnutt declared: “The invention of phonography deserves to rank, and does rank,…
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1-on-1 with Gopher basketball star Rachel Banham FOX 9, KMSP-TV Eden Prairie, Minnesota 2016-02-27 Hobie Artigue, Reporter MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) – University of Minnesota senior Rachel Banham has been the best player to watch in the Twin Cities on the basketball court and is the toast of the Big Ten. Watch Fox 9’s Hobie Artigue hit…
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MSNBC severs ties with Melissa Harris-Perry after host’s critical email The Washington Post 2016-02-28 Paul Farhi, Media Reporter MSNBC has parted ways with host Melissa Harris-Perry after she complained about preemptions of her weekend program and implied that there was a racial aspect to the cable-news network’s treatment, insiders at MSNBC said. Harris-Perry refused to…
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Titled after the Latin term for “unknown land”—a cartographical expression referring to regions that have not yet been mapped or documented—”Terra Incognita” is a collection of poems that creatively explores various racial discourses and interracial crossings buried in history’s grand narratives.
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Adebe DeRango-Adem was recently hailed as a young Canadian author to watch by Canada’s poet laureate, George Elliott Clarke. She is a poet and doctoral student in English literature at University of Pennsylvania.
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The Convention for the reconstruction of Louisiana, now in session at New Orleans, is one of the smallest affairs in the way of brains ever before assembled in the United States. It is composed of cooks, boot-blacks, field-hands, bureau officers, and men unknown five miles from their place of residence.
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Lupita Nyong’o and Trevor Noah, and Their Meaningful Roles Table for Three The New York Times 2016-02-27 Philip Galanes Lupita Nyong’o, an Oscar-winning actress, and Trevor Noah, the host of “The Daily Show,” at the Dutch in SoHo. Credit Malin Fezehai for The New York Times The most intriguing stars seem to appear from out…
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Melissa Harris-Perry Walks Off Her MSNBC Show After Pre-Emptions The New York Times 2016-02-26 John Koblin, Television Reporter Melissa Harris-Perry said she had received no word about whether her MSNBC show had been canceled. Credit Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Melissa Harris-Perry said she was refusing to go on the MSNBC show she hosts…