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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Exhibit by Penn cultural anthropologist showcases Afro-Latinos in Philadelphia Penn Current: News, ideas and conversations from the University of Pennsylvania 2015-12-10 Jacquie Posey Free and enslaved Africans shaped and built Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Their descendants, known as Afro-Latinos, are featured in a new photo exhibition by cultural anthropologist Sandra Andino, associate director…
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“The Double Curse of Sex and Color”: Robert Purvis and Human Rights Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Volume 121 [CXXI], Number 1-2, January/April 1997 pages 53-76 Margaret Hope Bacon (1921-2011) In 1869 A NATIONAL WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE convention was held for the first time in Washington, D.C. The Fourteenth Amendment had recently been ratified and the Fifteenth…
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A rare glimpse into the thoughts and experiences of a free black American woman in the nineteenth century
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Let’s Learn From the Past: Cumberland Posey Jr. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 2013-08-29 Michele Sneddon, History Center Communications Assistant As a standout player, manager and owner, Cumberland Willis Posey Jr. built the Homestead Grays into one of the most successful franchises in Negro League baseball history. Born on June 20, 1890, Posey grew up in a…
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The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that 2010 Census population totals and demographic characteristics have been released for communities in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. These data have provided the first look at population counts for small areas and race, Hispanic origin, voting age and housing unit data released from…