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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Fannie’s legacy: How a mixed-race couple settled early Lake Worth The Palm Beach Post West Palm Beach, Florida 2013-08-06 pages D4-D5 Scott Eyman, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer They thrived until Jim Crow laws forced them from the town. Before there was Lake Worth, there was a town called Jewell. It wasn’t a big town…
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Pioneers of Jewell: A Documentary History of Lake Worth’s Forgotten First Settlement (1885 – 1910) Lake Worth Herald Publication 2013 254 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 098326094X; ISBN-13: 978-0983260943 11 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches Ted Brownstein A documentary history of Jewell, Florida, a lost community of everglades pioneers founded in 1885 by Samuel and Fannie James,…
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The Story of Fort Mosé Freedom Road Productions 2013 Derek Hankerson, Director Francisco Menendez (played by James Bullock) This is the story of Fort Mosé and Francisco Menendez in St. Augustine, Florida.
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Recent Decisions: Constitutional Law: Miscegenation Laws Marquette Law Review Volume 48, Issue 4 (Spring 1965) pages 616-620 C. Michael Conter Constitutional Law: Miscegenation Laws: The defendants were convicted under section 798.05 of the Florida statutes, which prohibited nighttime cohabitation of the same room by a Negro and a white of different sexes. On appeal, their…
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Constitutionality Of Miscegenation Statutes: McLaughlin v. Florida Maryland Law Review Volume 25, Issue 1 (1965) pages 41-48 Lee M. Miller The appellants, a Negro man and a white woman, were convicted of violating a Florida statute which proscribed cohabitation between Negro and white persons who are not married to each other. The Florida Supreme Court…
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Mixed-race teen in the middle: who will she choose? Tampa Bay Times St. Petersburg, Florida 2012-09-23 Leonora LaPeter Anton, Times Staff Writer Her dark eyes scanned the fluorescent-lit lunchroom, locking onto her friends in the center of the chaos. Her thoughts sprayed in many directions: the upcoming eighth-grade formal, a surprisingly bad grade she recently…
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Freedom Road Spotlights St. Augustine History VisitFlorida.com 2012-06-29 Amy Wimmer Schwarb Derek Hankerson wanted to help educate people not only about Spanish Florida, but about the diverse groups who contributed to the country’s founding. A St. Augustine company is trying to reshape the American story – not to rewrite history, but to retell it. Derek…
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A Seminole Warrior Cloaked in Defiance Smithsonian Magazine October 2010 Owen Edwards A pair of woven, beaded garters reflects the spirit of Seminole warrior Osceola Infinity of nations,” a new permanent exhibition encompassing nearly 700 works of indigenous art from North, Central and South America, opens October 23 at the George Gustav Heye Center in…