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: Akron Law Review
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Law and the Boundaries of Place and Race in Interracial Marriage: Interstate Comity, Racial Identity, and Miscegenation Laws in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, 1860s-1960s Akron Law Review Volume 32, Number 3 (1999) pages 557-575 Peter Wallenstein, Professor of History Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University In North Carolina in 1869, Wesley Hairston, a…
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Southern Free Women of Color In the Antebellum North: Race, Class, and a “New Women’s Legal History”
Southern Free Women of Color In the Antebellum North: Race, Class, and a “New Women’s Legal History” Akron Law Review Volume 41, 1Number 3 (2007-2008) pages 763-798 Bernie D. Jones, Associate Professor of Law Suffolk University I. Configuring Race, Gender, and Class in American Legal History II. African-American Women in the Antebellum United States: Enslaved…
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Elizabeth Key, an African-Anglo woman living in seventeenth century colonial Virginia sued for her freedom after being classified as a negro by the overseers of her late master’s estate. Her lawsuit is one of the earliest freedom suits in the English colonies filed by a person with some African ancestry. Elizabeth’s case also highlights those…