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: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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DNA tests show fallacy of Jim Crow The Albuquerque Journal 2014-03-21 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Harvard University I am filming guest interviews for Season 2 of the genealogy series “Finding Your Roots,” airing on PBS this September. One of…
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Who Are We, Really? View from Rue Saint-Georges The American Scholar 2016-09-21 Thomas Chatterton Williams Detail from The Redemption of Ham by Modesto Brocos y Gómez (1895) Lately, as I’ve been working on my second book, a meditation on the absurdity of sorting human beings into metaphorical color categories, I’ve been thinking a lot about…
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Racial identity: Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Anatole Broyard The Globe and Mail 1999-11-23 Robert Fulford For many years, Anatole Broyard of The New York Times was a dashing figure in literary New York, a critic of exceptional charm and wit. He was said to be one of those people who talk spontaneously in well-shaped…
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My Ancestor’s Name and Race Changed in Census Records. Why? The Root 2016-01-01 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. University Professor; Director, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research Harvard University Anna L. Todd, Researcher New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS), Boston, Massachusetts 1860 U.S. census for Hardy County, Va. U.S. census Tracing…
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Broyard was, according to Henry Louis Gates’s 1996 New Yorker article “The Passing of Anatole Broyard,” some kind of a trickster. The word Creole requires rigorous semantic handling. Just as New Orleans became the home of French, Arcadian, and Haitian refugees, the very word Creole carries an underlying sense of evasion, a connotation of which Broyard clearly took advantage.…
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First African-American woman novelist revisited Harvard University Gazette Cambridge, Massachusetts 2005-03-24 Ken Gewertz, Harvard News Office Harriet Wilson was a survivor. Now we have proof. Wilson wrote “Our Nig; or Sketches From the Life of A Free Black,” the earliest known novel by an African-American woman. It tells the story of Frado, a young biracial…
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Advances in genealogy and DNA analysis tell surprising and disturbing stories about the heritage we think we know
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Born Champions [Full Episode] Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2014-09-30 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Host and Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Harvard University Three of America’s greatest athletes, whose determination and love of sports were deeply shaped by their families, were…