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: Ohio
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A novelist learns about her mother’s long-held secret by search for what’s missing from her family photo albums.
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Longtown was established nearly 200 years ago in what is now Greenville. The settlement grew into a thriving mixed-race community and a major stop on the Underground Railroad.
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Let Ohio Vote First The New York Times 2016-02-16 Emma Roller We, as voters and election-obsessed bystanders, made it past the first two contests in this eons-long presidential primary, but seven candidates weren’t so lucky. The winnowed-down field has now moved on to the warmer vote-seeking climes of Nevada and South Carolina. Before moving on…
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An Ohio town where races have mixed freely for more than 200 years The Washington Post 2015-09-26 Kevin Williams Connor Keiser, 22, left, shows his album of historic photos of Longtown to James Jett, 90 at Bethel Long Wesleyan Church. (Maddie McGarvey/For The Washington Post) Amid the corn and soybean fields of western Ohio lies…
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Cincy in 2060: 1 in 7 of us will be biracial The Cincinnati Enquirer 2014-10-21 Mark Curnutte, Social Justice/Minority Affairs Reporter Photos and video by: Cara Owsley, Staff Photojournalist A new index suggests many of our communities will look less like they do today and more like Austin or Washington, D.C. EAST PRICE HILL – …
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Lawsuit: Wrong sperm delivered to lesbian couple The Chicago Tribune 2014-10-01 Meredith Rodriguez, Tribune reporter A white Ohio woman is suing a Downers Grove-based sperm bank, alleging that the company mistakenly gave her vials from an African-American donor, a fact that she said has made it difficult for her and her same-sex partner to raise…