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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The Crime of Being Married Life Magazine 1966-03-18 pages 85- Source: Library of Virginia Photographs by Grey Villet A Virginia couple fights to overturn an old law against miscegenation She is Negro, he is white, and they are married. This puts them in a kind of legal purgatory in their home state of Virginia, which…
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The Loving Story Home Box Office (HBO) 2012-02-14, 21:00 EST Nancy Buirski, Director and Producer In June 2, 1958, a white man named Richard Loving and his part-black, part-Cherokee fiancée Mildred Jeter travelled from Caroline County, VA to Washington, D.C. to be married. At the time, interracial marriage was illegal in 21 states, including Virginia.…
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Mildred Loving The Economist 2008-05-15 Mildred Loving, law-changer, died on May 2nd, aged 68 The loved each other. That must have been why they decided to get their marriage certificate framed and to hang it up in the bedroom of their house. There was little else in the bedroom, save the bed. Certainly nothing worth…
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Long Way Home: The Loving Story Augusta Films 2010 Director and Producer: Nancy Buirski Producer and Editor: Elisabeth Haviland James Richard and Mildred Loving, Circa 1967 This documentary feature film, currently in production, tells the dramatic story of Mildred and Richard Loving, a black and Cherokee woman married to a white man (against the law in…