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: Chowan Discovery Group
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Fathers, Farmers, Fighters Leaders: The Robbins Family at War (Civil War Roundtable of the Rock Creek Nature Center) U.S. Park Service Rock Creek Nature Center 5200 Glover Road, NW Washington, D.C. 2014-01-04, 09:30 EST (Local Time) Marvin Jones, Executive Director Chowan Discovery Group The Robbinses lived across racial lines and along the borders of slavery.…
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News Release: Lectures in Edenton and Raleigh this weekend Chowan Discovery Group 2013-05-15 Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director This weekend, the Winton Triangle’s history will be presented at special events in Edenton and Raleigh. On the morning of Friday, May 17, the town of Edenton is observing its 300th anniversary. Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director of…
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Family and Community History of the Winton Triangle Research at the National Archives & Beyond BlogTalk Radio 2013-04-22, 21:00-22:00 EDT (2013-04-23, 01:00-02:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director Chowan Discovery Group From Family History to Community History—the Chowan Discovery Group Story with Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director of the Chowan Discovery Group (CDG).…
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The Chowan Discovery Group: Documenting the Mixed-Race History of North Carolina’s “Winton Triangle”
The Chowan Discovery Group: Documenting the Mixed-Race History of North Carolina’s “Winton Triangle” Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2013-03-20 Vikki Bynum, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Here’s another region of the South with a fascinating history of mixed-race ancestry. I discovered the Chowan Discovery Group after Steven Riley, creator…
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Opportunities for Academic Research Chowan Discovery Group 2013-02-25 Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director The Chowan Discovery Group is inviting academics to partner with us to study the Winton Triangle. The Triangle is a 260 year-old mixed race community of landowners in central Hertford County. Around 1960, its population was in the hundreds, and the land…
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Winton Triangle history in Chicago! Chowan Discovery Group 2012-11-06 Marvin Jones In Chicago, the CDG got the opportunity to introduce our history to a national audience of academics and students at the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at DePaul University in Chicago. Writer Lars Adams, of the Chowanoke Descendants website, presented the history of the…
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Three Winton Triangle Presentations at Greensboro conference. Chowan Discovery Group 2012-10-15 Marvin T. Jones The Chowan Discovery presentations about the Winton Triangle, its Civil War history and Chowan Discovery historical markers attracted many enthusiastic attendees at the annual conference of the Afro-American Genealogical and Historical Society (AAGHS) in Greensboro. Included in the audiences were history…
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Honoring Robert Lee Vann The State of Things WUNC 91.5, North Carolina Public Radio 2012-07-10 Frank Stasio, Host Sarah Edwards, Co-Host Guests Marvin Jones Chowan Discovery Group Cash Michaels, Editor, Chief Reporter/Photographer and Columnist The Carolinian North Carolina native Robert Lee Vann was a pioneer of journalism during his lifetime. He served as editor of…