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: World War II
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When Jim Crow Met John Bull: Black American Soldiers in World War II Britain I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd. 1987 300 pages 220 x 140cm Hardback ISBN: 9781850430391 Graham Smith An important chapter in the history of World War II is here explored for the first-time—how the arrival of the black troops strained war-time…
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Black German culture, history highlighted at Amherst-sponsored conference Amherst College News Amherst College Amherst, Massachusetts 2013-08-16 Peter Rooney, Director of Public Affairs As more African-Americans are realizing they have German roots, and as Germans expand the notion of what it means to be German, a new academic discipline dedicated to examining the Black German experience…
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New book details racism faced by black soldiers who helped build Alaska Highway Edmonton Journal Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 2013-08-02 Chris Zdeb EDMONTON – Author John Virtue admits he knew “absolutely nothing” about The Black Soldiers Who Built the Alaska Highway, which is also the title of his latest book, before he started researching the topic…
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The Black Soldiers Who Built the Alaska Highway: A History of Four U.S. Army Regiments in the North, 1942-1943 McFarland 2013 228 pages 39 photos, notes, bibliography, index Softcover (7 x 10) Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-7117-1 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4766-0039-0 John Virtue, Director International Media Center at Florida International University This is the first detailed account of…
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The Colors of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845 to 1945 Harvard University Press February 2011 272 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 20 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780674057012 George Bornstein, C. A. Patrides Professor of Literature, Emeritus University of Michigan, Ann Arbor A major reevaluation of relationships among Blacks, Jews, and Irish in the years…
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The contributors present a wide range of Black–German encounters, from representations of Black saints in religious medieval art to Black Hessians fighting in the American Revolutionary War, from Cameroonian children being educated in Germany to African American agriculturalists in Germany’s protectorate, Togoland.
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Looking back at lives of black GIs in Dorset Dorset Echo Weymouth, Dorset, England 2013-06-12 James Tourgout A NEW exhibition is highlighting the stories of black soldiers in Dorset during World War Two. It explores the lives of African American servicemen who headed to Dorset to train for D-Day and is showing at Weymouth library…
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A Black Nurse, a German Soldier and an Unlikely WWII Romance The New York Times 2013-05-14 Alexis Clark The nurse and the soldier may never have met – and eventually married – had it not been for the American government’s mistreatment of black women during World War II. Elinor Elizabeth Powell was an African-American military…
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‘War Baby’ is something to see, if you can let go The Chicago Tribune 2013-05-08 Lori Waxman, Instructor of Art History, Theory and Criticism School of the Art Institute of Chicago It was the Hello Kitty tepee that did it for me. Some exhibitions can be so challenging that it takes a particularly unexpected artwork…