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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Ralston, Elreta Melton Alexander NCPediaState Library of North CarolinaRaleigh, North Carolina2013 Virginia L. Summey, Historian, Author, and Faculty FellowLloyd International Honors College, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Elreta Melton Alexander was a pioneering African-American attorney from Greensboro, North Carolina. Born in Smithfield, North Carolina, she was the daughter of a Baptist minister and a…
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Aaron’s Book The Devil’s Tale: Dispatches from the Davin M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 2021-07-27 Blake Hill-Saya Above: Portrait in oils of Dr. Aaron McDuffie Moore painted by his daughter Lyda Moore Merrick. Located in the North Carolina Collection, Stanford L. Warren Branch of the Durham County Library,…
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Marvin Jones, Chowan Discovery Group executive director, has made it his life’s work to document the history of a northeastern North Carolina community of color.
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Join UNCG professor Dr. Warren Milteer and Cape Fear Museum on Zoom for a conversation about the lives of free men, women, and children of color in our region.
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North Carolina Free People of Color, 1715-1885 with Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. Research at the National Archives and Beyond 2020-06-25 Bernice Bennett, Host Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. examines the lives of free persons categorized by their communities as negroes, mulattoes, mustees, Indians, mixed-bloods, or simply free people of color. From the colonial period through Reconstruction,…
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In “North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885,” Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. examines the lives of free persons categorized by their communities as “negroes,” “mulattoes,” “mustees,” “Indians,” “mixed-bloods,” or simply “free people of color.”
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Dr. Moore was one-third of the mighty “Triumvirate” alongside John Merrick and C. C. Spaulding, credited with establishing Durham as the capital of the African American middle class in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and founding Durham’s famed Black Wall Street.
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Meet the most important Civil War leader you’ve never heard of