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: July 2016
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Kafka’s Blues: Figurations of Racial Blackness in the Construction of an Aesthetic Northwestern University Press June 2016 184 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8101-3286-3 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8101-3285-6 E-book ISBN: 978-0-8101-3287-0 Mark Christian Thompson, Associate Professor of English Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland Kafka’s Blues proves the startling thesis that many of Kafka’s major works engage…
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Africans in Medieval & Renaissance Art: Duke Alessandro de’ Medici Victoria and Albert Museum London, England, United Kingdom Portrait of Duke Alessandro de’ Medici, after Jacopo da Pontormo, Florence, Italy, about 1550. Museum no. CAI.171. Ionides Bequest Both of the objects highlighted here feature Alessandro de’ Medici (1511-37), the first Duke of Florence. It is…
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Sumter County, Fla., is Nation’s Oldest, Census Bureau Reports United States Census Bureau Washington, D.C. 2016-06-23 Release Number: CB16-107 Only County in Nation With Majority of Population Age 65 or Older JUNE 23, 2016 — The nation’s only county with a majority of the population age 65 or older remains Sumter, Fla., where 54.8 percent…
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For Independence Day, a Look at Thomas Jefferson’s Egregious Hypocrisy The Scientific American 2016-07-01 John Horgan “While many of his contemporaries, including George Washington, freed their slaves during and after the revolution—inspired, perhaps, by the words of the Declaration–Jefferson did not,” historian Paul Finkelman writes. “Jefferson also “dodged opportunities to undermine slavery or promote racial…
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Poet Jackie Kay recites her first commission as Scots Makar at Opening Ceremony The Scottish Parliament 2016-07-02 The poet, Jackie Kay has recited her first commission as Scots Makar, “Threshold”, at today’s Opening Ceremony of the Scottish Parliament.
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‘Free State of Jones’ leader Newt Knight in his own words The New Orleans Times-Picayune 2016-06-24 James Karst, Senior Editor A photograph of Newton Knight from the New Orleans Item on March 20, 1921. This interview with Newton Knight of Mississippi was originally published in the March 20, 1921, edition of the New Orleans Item.…