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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Then there was Mary Ellen Pleasant. She was one of the richest and most powerful people in the state — and she was a black woman. In fact she was a freedom fighter; her nickname was “Black City Hall.”
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Grafton Tyler Brown became the first professional artist in the province when he reinvented himself in his move to British Columbia in 1882. Two years later he headed south to Tacoma and has since become famous in the United States as the first and one of the best Black professional artists in California and the…
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What Colin Kaepernick’s Protest Looks Like to a Black 49ers Fan The New York Times 2016-08-31 Gerald Harris, President and Managing Director The Quantum Planning Group, San Francisco, California Colin Kaepernick Credit Ben Margot/Associated Press San Francisco — Why are we, as sports fans, continually surprised when one of our heroes turns out to be…
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National Women’s History Museum presents Chinese American Women: A History of Resilience and Resistance National Women’s History Museum 2016-06-08 Joseph, Emily, Mamie, Frank, and Mary Tape. Tape v. Hurley Mary Tape was a biracial Chinese American woman who believed that her daughter, Mamie, should have the same access to education as white children in San…
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Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community University of Washington Press June 2016 176 pages 1 bandw illus, 2 tables 6 x 9 in Paperback ISBN: 9780295998503 Hardcover ISBN: 9780295998077 Andrew J. Jolivette, Professor and chair of American Indian studies San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California The first book to…
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Grafton Tyler Brown—whose heritage was likely one-eighth African American—finessed his way through San Francisco society by passing for white. Working in an environment hostile to African American achievement, Brown became a successful commercial artist and businessman in the rough-and-tumble gold rush era and the years after the Civil War. Best known for his bird’s-eye cityscapes,…
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Call for Papers: Association for Feminist Anthropology Sessions American Anthropological Association 2012-02-07 Posted by Josyln O. The Association for Feminist Anthropology welcomes sessions to be considered for inclusion in AFA’s programming for the 111th AAA Annual Meeting, to be held November 14-18, 2012 in San Francisco. The AAA meeting theme this year is “Borders,” so…