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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Oklahoma cop gets life for sex crimes against the poor USA Today 2016-01-21 Melanie Eversley, Breaking News Reporter Former officer Daniel Holtzclaw was sentenced to 263 years in prison after he was convicted in December of 18 counts, including first-degree rape. A former Oklahoma City police officer was sentenced Thursday to spend the rest of…
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Former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw found guilty of rape Cable News Network (CNN) 2015-12-10 Michael Martinez, Newsdesk Editor & Writer Gigi Mann (CNN) A jury found former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw guilty Thursday of some of the most serious charges against him, including sexual battery, forcible oral sodomy and rape. Holtzclaw…
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G.O.P. Hopeful Finds Tribal Tie Cuts Both Ways The New York Times 2014-05-03 Jonathan Martin, National Political Correspondent BARTLESVILLE, Okla. — T. W. Shannon will be Oklahoma’s first black senator if he wins the Republican nomination and is elected this November, but the quiet campaign stirring here about Mr. Shannon’s racial loyalties is not aimed…
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Intermarried-Whites in the Cherokee Nation Between the Years 1865 and 1887 Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 6, Number 3 (September, 1928) pages 299-326 A. H. Murchison Muskogee, Oklahoma The Cherokee Indians in all their various treaties with the United States, numbering about twenty, obtained provisions whereby the United States was to exclude intruding white persons from their…
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An Act to Prevent Amalgamation with Colored Persons Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 6, No. 2 (June, 1928) Interesting Ante-bellum Laws of the Cherokees, Now Oklahoma History page 179 James W. Duncan Tahlequah, Oklahoma Be it enacted by the National Council, that intermarriage shall not be lawful between a free male or female citizen with any…
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Play Could Begin Renaissance For Seminole Nation Culture The Seminole Producer Seminole, Oklahoma 2013-11-13 pages 1-2 Karen Anson, Senior Editor IndianVoices.net contributed to this report A play on the history of the Seminole Nation’s Freedmen is wrapping up in Los Angeles, but those involved hope it’s only the beginning of a movement. The play, “the…
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the road weeps, the well runs dry Los Angeles Theater Center 514 South Spring Street Los Angeles, California 90013 Telephone: 213.489.0994 2013-10-24 through 2013-11-17 Thursday-Saturday: 20:00 PT (Local Time) Sunday: 15:00 PT (Local Time) Written by Marcus Gardley Directed by Shirley Jo Finney Rolling World Premiere Surviving centuries of slavery, revolts, and The Trail of…
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A Tale of Two Seminole Counties Indian Voices August 2013 page 7 Phil Fixico Some coincidences can’t be ignored, like February the 26th, in both Florida’s and Oklahoma’s Seminole Counties. What does this date and these counties have in common. Trayvon Martin was killed on February 26th, 2012, in Seminole County, Florida. He was born…