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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FBI investigating racist threat in Polk County Chattanooga Times Free Press Chattanooga, Tennessee Sunday, 2011-06-26 Beth Burger Ducktown, Tenn.—More than a week after part of a cinderblock was thrown through a trailer window with a threatening racist message attached, an interracial Polk County couple continue to have sleepless nights. “I just want to get out…
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Fifteenth Union: A Melungeon Gathering Melungeon Heritage Association Carolina Connections: Roots and Branches of Mixed Ancestry Communities Warren Wilson College Swannanoa, North Carolina 2011-07-14 through 2011-07-16 MHA is delighted to announce that this year our annual Union will be celebrated at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, NC, July 14-16, 2011. This will be our first…
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Daniel Sharfstein awarded Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship by Fletcher Foundation Vanderbilt University Law School 2011-07-06 Daniel J. Sharfstein, associate professor of law, has been awarded an Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship by the Fletcher Foundation. Professor Sharfstein’s new book, The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White, examines the…
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The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White [Discussion] Lillian Goldman Law Library Yale University 2011-03-07 Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University Moderator: Claire Priest, Professor of Law Yale University The Lillian Goldman Law Library together with the Yale Law School Legal History Forum and the Yale…
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Black or White? The New York Times 2011-05-14 Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University Daniel J. Sharfstein is the author of “The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White.” In February 1861, just weeks after Louisiana seceded from the Union, Randall Lee Gibson enlisted as a private…
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Book explores racial identification The Post and Courier Charleston, South Carolina 2011-04-24 Karen Spain, legal writer based in Nashville The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey From Black to White. By Daniel J. Sharfstein. Penguin. 416 pages. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, “The Invisible Line” is a fascinating history of how three…
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African Americans began to migrate from black to white as soon as slaves arrived on American shores. In seventeenth-century Virginia, social distinctions such as class and race were fluid, but the consequences of being black or white were enormous. It often meant the difference between slavery and freedom, poverty and prosperity, persecution and power. Even…
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The Invisible Line: American families’ journeys from black to white Research news@Vanderbilt Vanderbilt University 2011-02-17 Amy Wolf The idea of someone transitioning from black to white, without science or surgery, seems hard to grasp on the surface. Yet Vanderbilt Law School professor Daniel J. Sharfstein finds that African Americans have continually crossed the color line…
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Interview with Daniel J. Sharfstein, author of “The Invisible Line” The Christian Science Monitor 2011-02-23 Stacie Williams, Monitor Contributor In “The Invisible Line,” law professor Daniel J. Sharfstein uses the stories of three families to explore the fluid nature of racial identity in America. Race has never been an easy concept in this country; the…