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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A Mixed-Race, Mixed-Marriage Cumbo Family Website: Exploring Cumbo Family Roots and Branches across Generations 2016-05-06 Andre Kearns Washington, D.C. My great-great grandparents Edward Biggs and Florence Cumbo were both listed as Colored on their 1890 marriage license. So why am I classifying their union as a mixed marriage? It is because Edward Biggs was born…
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Lumbee Indians seek end to a century of questions about identity The Baltimore Sun Baltimore, Maryland 1993-10-12 Richard O’Mara, Staff Writer Proud people from North Carolina find a home in Baltimore Shirley Jeffrey, an East Baltimore resident, remembers the painful moment five years ago when two Sioux Indians told her that “Lumbees aren’t really Indians.”…
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W.T. Jones — Carthage’s best-kept secret: From slave to industrialist in the South The Courier-Tribune Ashboro, North Carolina 2016-03-15 Judi Brinegar (Contributed photo) He was born the son of a slave and her white owner in 1833. By time time of his death in 1910, William T. Jones was one of the prominent business owners…
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WELL! WELL! Goldsboro Weekly Argus Goldsboro, North Carolina Thursday, 1895-02-28 (Volume XVI, Number 67) page 1, column 3 Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. United States Library of Congress. Well, well, well! “Where are we at?” The sudden death of Frederick Douglas, the foremost negro in America, not by deserts but by the combination of…
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White or black? Sometimes it’s not so clear-cut StarNews Online Wilmington, North Carolina 2015-10-03 Beverly Smalls In June, as Rachel Dolezal of Spokane, Wash., confused members of the NAACP as well as her family, friends and the public about her choice to identify as an African-American, new conversations began. Dolezal was accused of being a…
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A Look At People’s ‘Race Experience’ In NC WUNC 91.5, North Carolina Public Radio 2015-05-15 Charlie Shelton, Digital News Producer We recently released a survey asking people about their experience with race in North Carolina. The responses ranged from personal stories on race’s influence in daily interactions to how race is affecting public opinion. From…
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Wrightsville Beach alderman pressured to resign after insult against bartender StarNews Wilmington, North Carolina 2015-04-17 Julian March WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH | Alderman Darryl Mills is facing pressure to resign after he used derogatory language to a bartender last month. Mills made the comment to Mia Banks while she was working at King Neptune Restaurant on North…
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How one man has made a mark on history in northeast N.C. The Outer Banks Voice 2015-04-04 Ed Beckley Marvin T. Jones has a passion for local heritage and is responsible for a half dozen historical markers in the area. Our region’s rich history is brought to the fore each time someone who passes a…
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A History of Loss The Chronicle Review The Chronicle of Higher Education 2015-02-09 Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University Alexander L. Manly could have been the first victim of the bloody race riot that exploded in Wilmington, N.C., in early November 1898. Manly, publisher of the Daily Record, North Carolina’s only African-American newspaper,…