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: April 2016
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Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South by Melissa Schrift (review) Journal of American Folklore Volume 129, Number 511, Winter 2016 pages 102-103 Jim Clark Melissa Schrift, Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013) In the thorough but concise introduction to her book…
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Coiled Serpent: Poems that Protect, in New Anthology KCET Burbank, California 2016-04-01 Mike Sonksen The coiled serpent serves as a poetic totem to protect the City of Angels. Published by Tia Chucha Press Over the last five years, a number of books and anthologies have been published to spotlight literary Los Angeles and its rich…
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Passionate about promoting diversity within the profession she is patron for Black British Academics and a Board member for various diversity organisations such as the Black Cultural Archives and the City Women Network.
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Tonight: Syfy Premieres New Alien Terrorist Series, ‘Hunters’ Shadow and Act: On Cinema Of The African Diaspora 2016-04-11 Tambay A. Obenson Britne Olford – HUNTERS Tonight, Syfy premieres the first season of “Hunters” it’s new fantastical procedural thriller produced by Universal Cable Productions (in association with Valhalla Entertainment and Atlas Entertainment, respectively). Britne Oldford (“American…
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Sacramento’s Mexican genealogists trace their roots to Aztec empire The Sacramento Bee Sacramento, California 2016-04-10 Stephen Magagnini Highlights Mexican Americans use Catholic Church records, other documents to map family roots Some trace family history to Aztecs, colonial Mexico Interest in Mexican family histories is growing as Latinos become biggest group in California Maria Cortez dug…
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MiXed at Cornell Illustrates Diversity of ‘Multiracial Experience’ at Cornell The Cornell Daily Sun Ithaca, New York 2016-04-10 Henry Kanengeiser MiXed at Cornell — a student organization dedicated to creating community among mixed race individuals — will host its first ever Blend Conference in Klarman Hall this weekend. The two-day conference will focus on the…
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Mystery still surrounds ‘Yellow Rose of Texas’ The Houston Chronicle Houston, Texas 2016-04-01 Joe Holley, Native Texan A statue of “Emily Morgan” by Veryl Goodnight stands amidst a garden of yellow roses in an office complex across the street from Memorial City Mall in Houston. Photo: Joe Holley, Joe Holley/Houston Chronicle So, what was happening…
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Thomas Jefferson spent years raping his slave Sally Hemings. A new novel treats their relationship as a love story. Vox 2016-04-08 Constance Grady A new historical novel about Thomas Jefferson is raising eyebrows. Stephen O’Connor’s Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings, which came out on Tuesday, is about our third president’s relationship with Sally Hemings,…
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An Heir to a Tribe’s Culture Ensures Its Language Is Not Forgotten The Saturday Profile The New York Times 2016-04-08 Michelle Innis Stan Grant, a Wiradjuri elder, at his home in Narrandera, Australia. Mr. Grant was an author of “A New Wiradjuri Dictionary,” after years of advocating to preserve the Wiradjuri language. Credit Adam Ferguson…
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The ‘Human Computer’ Behind the Moon Landing Was a Black Woman The Daily Beast 2016-04-07 Nathan Place Image of Katherine Johnson at NASA Langley Research Center in 1971. In an age of racism and sexism, Katherine Johnson broke both barriers at NASA. She calculated the trajectory of man’s first trip to the moon, and was…