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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Tag: African American Intellectual History Society
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Haiti, the Archive, and the Historical Imagination African American Intellectual History Society 2016-03-13 Brandon Bryd, Assistant Professor of History Mississippi State University John Mercer Langston Mathew Brady – Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.00690. CALL NUMBER: LC-BH83- 30771 In the fall of 1877, John Mercer Langston laid on his bed…
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Antiracism and the Cuban Revolution: An Interview with Devyn Spence Benson African American Intellectual History Society 2016-03-08 Reena Goldthree, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Devyn Spence Benson This month, I interviewed historian Devyn Spence Benson about her forthcoming book, Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution (University of…
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Black Death: Gore, Geographies and the Gallows in Jamaica African American Intellectual History Society 2015-10-12 Jessica Marie Johnson, Assistant Professor of History Michigan State University Pierre Eugène du Simitière, ca. 1757-1774 One evening, on a road in Jamaica, a soldier belonging to the “Mulatto Company” made his evening rounds. He came upon a black man…
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Revisiting Palmares: Maroon Communities in Brazil (Celeste Henery) African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) 2015-11-09 Celeste Henery, Postdoctoral Fellow University of Texas, Austin This is a guest post by Celeste Henery, a Research Associate at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies. She completed a PhD…
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On the use of “Slave Mistress” AAIHS: African American Intellectual History Society 2015-08-21 Emily Owens The passing of the great civil-rights leader Julian Bond earlier this week ignited a firestorm of activity on Twitter. Historians of African American women’s history noticed and commented on something suspect in Bond’s obituary, a brief line embedded within: in…