Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War (Scarborough review) Civil War History Volume 49, Number 1, March 2003 pages 72-74 DOI: 10.1353/cwh.2003.0026 William Kauffman Scarborough, Professor Emeritus of History University of Southern Mississippi The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War. By Victoria E. Bynum. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,…
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Nathan Crowell on Racial Identity: Gloucester County, Virginia, revisited Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2013-01-14 Victoria E. Bynum, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Some time ago, in response to my 10 November 2011 post, “Free People of Color in Old Virginia: The Morris Family of Gloucester County,” (which I…
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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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Racial identity and the law: miscegenation and the “one drop rule” Renegade South: histories of unconventional southerners 2011-08-05 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History (author of The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies) Texas State University, San Marcos The “one drop rule” of race refers to the belief that…
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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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“Free People of Color” in Old Virginia: The Morris Family of Gloucester County, a Case Study Renegade South: histories of unconventional southerners 2011-11-10 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Back in 1977, when I was a junior in college, history became a personal venture for me when an African…
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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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Victoria Bynum to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Jennifer Frappier Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #220-Victoria Bynum When: Wednesday, 2011-08-10, 21:00Z (17:00 EDT,…
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Speaking About Southern Unionists… and Mixed-Race People: A Report and an Announcement Renegade South: histories of unconventional southerners 2011-05-07 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos I just returned from a wonderful visit to Leiden University in the Netherlands, where I spoke generally about Civil War Southern Unionists and specifically…
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Civil War Fires Up Literary Shootout The New York Times 2009-07-29 Michael Cieply LOS ANGELES — History repeats itself. But sometimes it needs a little polishing up from Hollywood. Over the last few weeks, the writers of a pair of Civil War-era histories about the anti-Confederate inhabitants of Jones County, Miss., have been trading barbs…