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: June 2016
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BEAUTIFUL ANITA HEMMING. STORY OF THE VASSAR GRADUATE BORN OF NEGROES. The Sacramento Daily Record-Union Friday, 1897-09-24 page 6, columns 1-4 Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. STORY OF THE VASAR GRADUATE BORN OF NEGROS She Kept the Secret of Her Birth for Years From Her Roommate. This is the story of…
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Former Duquesne, Penn State athlete Cumberland Posey elected to Basketball Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 2016-04-05 Stephen J. Nesbitt, Beat Writer Courtesy of the Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, N.Y. Will become only person inducted into both professional basketball, baseball halls of fame The grass-roots campaign to get Cumberland “Cum” Posey enshrined in the…
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Imitation of Life: Melodrama and Race in the 21st Century exhibition, HOME, reviewed by Şima İmşir Parker The Manchester Review Manchester, England May 2016 Şima İmşir Parker, Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Manchester Imitation of Life: Melodrama and Race in the 21st Century, Home, 30 April 2016 – 3 July 2016 “The melodramatic body is…
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‘A New Holland Half-Caste’: Sealer and Whaler Tommy Chaseland History Australia Volume 5, Issue 1, 2008 pages 08.1-08.15 DOI: 10.2104/ha080008 Lynette Russell, Professor Monash University, Australia This article discusses the life of Tommy Chaseland, a ‘half-caste’ Aboriginal son of a convict who became a renowned sealer and whaler and emigrated to New Zealand in the…
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COLORED VASSAR GIRL. The Saint Paul Globe Sunday, 1897-09-05 page 21, column 7 People at Poughkeepsie Thought Miss Hemmings Was a Spaniard. Anita Florence Hemmings, the Boston girl who has stirred up such a sensation by daring to complete a course at exclusive Vassar when she new that there was negro blood in her veins,…
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The penalties of miscegenation Patterns of Prejudice Volume 6, Issue 3, 1972 pages 10-12 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.1972.9969062 Mary Dines (1927-2011) Paragraph 24 of “Commonwealth Citizens: Control after Entry: Immigration Rules” (Cmd. 4295) reads: “If a man who was admitted as a visitor or student, or in some other temporary capacity, marries a woman who is a…
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Visible and Invisible Hapa Exhibit at Japanese American Museum San Jose Hapa Mama: Asian Fusion Family and Food 2016-05-20 Grace Hwang Lynch Bay Area people… there’s an exhibit about the history of hapa Japanese Americans at the Japanese American Museum in San Jose. Titled Visible and Invisible, it’s similar to the exhibit of the same…
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Uncovering the story of a grandmother’s racial passing and its effect on following generations.
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Hybrid by Robert Wood Mascara Literary Review 2015-10-04 Robert Wood Robert Wood grew up in a multicultural household in Perth. He holds degrees from the Australian National University and the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a National Undergraduate Scholar and a Benjamin Franklin Fellow respectively. He has edited for Margaret River Press, Wild Dingo…
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“White Enough to Pass”: Uncovering the story of John Wesley Gibson underbelly: From the Deepest Corners of the Maryland Historical Society Library 2016-01-21 Excerpt from William Still’s 1872 book, The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, & c., Narrating the Hardships Hair-breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in their Efforts…