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: North Carolina
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Analysis of a Tri-Racial Isolate Human Biology Volume 36, Number 4 (December 1964) pages 362-373 William S. Pollitzer Department of Anatomy University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Based on a paper presented at the meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Philadelphia, May 2, 1962 A relatively isolated population in the state of…
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How does a group of people who have American Indian ancestry but no records of treaties, reservations, Native language, or peculiarly “Indian” customs come to be accepted—socially and legally—as Indians?
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New Marker Unveiling this Saturday in Manteo! Chowan Discovery Group 2013-08-07 Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director For decades, [North Carolina] NC Highway markers in Manteo have honored English exploration, the Lost Colony and Confederate forts. No reference to the local people has been acknowledged. Well, this Saturday, the first town encountered by the English, in…
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News Release: Lectures in Edenton and Raleigh this weekend Chowan Discovery Group 2013-05-15 Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director This weekend, the Winton Triangle’s history will be presented at special events in Edenton and Raleigh. On the morning of Friday, May 17, the town of Edenton is observing its 300th anniversary. Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director of…
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Family and Community History of the Winton Triangle Research at the National Archives & Beyond BlogTalk Radio 2013-04-22, 21:00-22:00 EDT (2013-04-23, 01:00-02:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director Chowan Discovery Group From Family History to Community History—the Chowan Discovery Group Story with Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director of the Chowan Discovery Group (CDG).…
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Runaway Western Carolinian Salisbury, North Carolina 1832-09-17 page 3, column 6 Source: The North Carolina Newspaper Digitization Project On the 10th of September last, from my plantation in Jones county, two negroes, one named WASHINGTON, about 27 years of age, a very bright mulatto, on one of his hands there is a scar occasioned by…
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The Chowan Discovery Group: Documenting the Mixed-Race History of North Carolina’s “Winton Triangle”
The Chowan Discovery Group: Documenting the Mixed-Race History of North Carolina’s “Winton Triangle” Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2013-03-20 Vikki Bynum, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Here’s another region of the South with a fascinating history of mixed-race ancestry. I discovered the Chowan Discovery Group after Steven Riley, creator…
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Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation by Malinda Maynor Lowery (review) Journal of American Folklore Volume 126, Number 499, Winter 2013 pages 95-96 DOI: 10.1353/jaf.2013.0006 David Steven Cohen This book from the University of North Carolina Press raises important questions about which groups are and are…
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Opportunities for Academic Research Chowan Discovery Group 2013-02-25 Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director The Chowan Discovery Group is inviting academics to partner with us to study the Winton Triangle. The Triangle is a 260 year-old mixed race community of landowners in central Hertford County. Around 1960, its population was in the hundreds, and the land…
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Outlawry in Robeson County, North Carolina The Atlanta Weekly Sun For the Week Ending 1872-03-27 page 5, columns 3-5 Source: Georgia Historic Newspapers The Lowerys The extraordinary persistence of the Lowery gang in their bloody work, in Robeson county, North Carolina, demands an outline sketch of their career, for the information of many who have…