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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The Importance of Being Turbaned The Antioch Review Volume 69, Number 2, Spring 2011 pages 208-221 Paul A. Kramer, Associate Professor of History Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee This narrative piece, selected by The Best American Essays 2012 as a “notable essay,” tells the story of Rev. Jesse Routté, an African American Lutheran minister in New…
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“I got plenty of African American friends — I’ve known ’em since I was 14,” said [Lonnie] Miles, adding that he learned to say ‘African American’ out of respect. “They know if they need anything, all they have to do is ask me. I have supper with them, and they have supper with me too.…
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Brief life of a rebellious black suffragist: 1863-1915
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Her [Brittany Howard’s] most striking lyrics come on Goat Head [in her album Jaime], as she discusses growing up as the child of a poor, interracial couple in rural Alabama. “When I was born – or rather when my sister was born in 1984 – that was like the first wave of mixed babies, little…
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In the middle of making her new album, Brittany Howard decided to record the air conditioner.
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It was when her eldest daughter began asking questions about herself, namely about the color of her skin. They were questions that took her by surprise because Simone was only 3 years old.
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Alabama’s Anti-Miscegenation Statutes Alabama Review Volume 68, Number 4, October 2015 pages 345-365 DOI: 10.1353/ala.2015.0033 Jeremy W. Richter, Associate Webster, Henry, Lyons, Bradwell, Cohan & Speagle, P.C., Attorneys and Counselors at Law, Birmingham, Alabama In the immediate aftermath of the civil war and, more specifically, the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, various southern states began…
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Interesting description of a group of people called Cajans around Mobile Alabama written before 1940
Interesting description of a group of people called Cajans around Mobile Alabama written before 1940 Alabama Pioneers 2015-11-06 Donna R. Causey THE CAJANS OF SOUTH ALABAMA Occupying the pine and oak woods of Mobile County in southern Alabama are a group of people of mixed racial blood known in that section as Indian Cajans. Living…
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“Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White” is an arresting and moving personal story about childhood, race, and identity in the American South, rendered in stunning illustrations by the author, Lila Quintero Weaver.