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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Tag: Newt Knight
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Ellisville, Miss.—(AP)—A young veteran who served in the navy as a white man and later married a white woman has been convicted of miscegenation and sentenced to five years in prison.
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Letter documenting the struggle of two children’s attempt to attend school Special Collections University of Southern Mississippi Libraries Item of the Month March 2010 Jennifer Brannock, Special Collections Librarian The Mississippi Department of Archives and History: Sovereignty Commission Online [Note from Steven F. Riley: For more on Newton Knight, Rachel Knight, and the “Free State…
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The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War University of North Carolina Press 2001 336 pages 6.125 x 9.25 32 illus., 9 genealogical charts, 10 maps, appends., notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-5467-9 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters…
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Littefield Lecture: The Free State of Jones: Community, Race, and Kinship in Civil War Mississippi Littlefield Lecture University of Texas, Austin Applied Computational Engineering & Sciences Building (ACE), Avaya Auditorium 2.302 2012-03-06, 16:00-18:00 CST (Local Time) Victoria Bynum, Professor Emerita Texas State University, San Marcos Dr. Bynum will be delivering this year’s Littlefield Lectures for…
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Bynum: The Long Shadow of the Civil War (2010) The Civil War Monitor: A New Look at America’s Greatest Conflict 2011-10-19 Laura Hepp Bradshaw Carnegie Mellon University The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies by Victoria E. Bynum. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0807833819. “Few…
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The “One Drop Rule” revisited: Mary Ann McQueen of Montgomery County, North Carolina Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2010-12-21 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Many people, perhaps most, think of “race” as an objective reality. Historically, however, racial categorization has been unstable, contradictory, and arbitrary. Consider the…
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Rachel Knight: Slave, White Man’s Mistress and Mother to a Movement Johnathon Odell: Discovering Our Stories 2010-09-20 John Odell Rachel’s Children I can’t help but think of the Old Testament Abraham when I hear stories about Newt Knight. Both men sired children by a wife and a slave. In Newt’s case it was Serena and…
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White Negro Communities: Too White To Be Black And Too Black To Be White Johnathon Odell: Discovering Our Stories 2010-07-25 John Odell Yvonne Bivins had to make a choice very few Americans have forced upon them. She could live as a black woman or a white woman. Yvonne’s ancestry is enmeshed with the Knights of…
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The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies [Book Review] Civil War Book Review Summer 2010 Michael Perman, Professor of History and Research Professor of Humanities University of Illinois, Chicago Family and Dissent in the South during and after the Civil War Bynum, Victoria E. The Long Shadow of the Civil…