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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New Contenders Emerge in Quest to Identify Yale’s First African-American Graduate The New York Times 2014-03-16 Ariel Kaminer For Richard Henry Green, recently declared to have been Yale College’s first known African-American graduate, fame, or at least the certainty of his claim on history, was fleeting. Just last month, an Americana specialist at the Swann…
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Interracial Family Memoirs: Reconstructing Genealogies across the Color Line Yale University 230 Prospect Street Room 101 New Haven, Connecticut 06511 2013-09-16, 12:00-13:15 EDT (Local Time) Cedric Essi, Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies University of Erlangen-Nürnberg During the last two decades numerous autobiographical works have emerged which explore family histories in black and white, such as…
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“Double Natural” Yale University Department of African American Studies 81 Wall St., Gordon Parks Room 201 2013-01-24, 11:45-13:15 EST (Local Time) Ellen Gallagher, Hayden Visiting Artist Yale University Art Gallery Ellen Gallagher breaks the boundaries of traditional art by using materials and found images in unexpected ways. Her work often looks at how African Americans…
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Living Portraits: Carl Van Vechten’s Color Photographs of African Americans, 1939-1964 Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964), photographer, promotor of literary talent, and critic of dance, theater, and opera, had an artistic vision rooted in the centrality of the talented person. He cherished accomplishment, whether in…
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“Spectacular wickedness”: New Orleans, prostitution, and the politics of sex, 1897-1917 Yale University May 2005 274 pages Publication Number: AAT 3168932 ISBN: 9780542049149 Emily Epstein Landau A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy This dissertation is a history of the…
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Founding Families: Power and Authority of Mixed French and Native Lineages In Eighteenth Century Detroit Yale University May 2011 365 pages Publication Number: AAT 3467517 ISBN: 9781124807232 Karen L. Marrero A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosphy This dissertation highlights…
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“A new American comes ‘home’”: Race, nation, and the immigration of Korean War adoptees, “GI babies,” and brides Yale University May 2010 355 pages Publication Number: AAT 3395980 ISBN: 9781109588873 Susie Woo A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Between…