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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Woman finds out famous relative was black The Toronto Star 2011-02-23 Megan Ogilvie, Health Reporter Growing up in Georgetown, Catherine Slaney knew her great-grandfather had an important and interesting past. She knew he was a respected doctor and a surgeon in the American Civil War. She knew he was a friend of Abraham Lincoln and…
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Family Secrets: Crossing the Colour Line Dundurn Publishing February 2003 264 pages 6 x 9 in Paperback ISBN: 978-1-89621-982-0 eBook (PDF) ISBN: 978-1-55488-161-1 eBook (EPUB) ISBN: 978-1-45971-478-6 Catherine Slaney Foreword by: Daniel G. Hill, III (1923-2003) Catherine Slaney grew into womanhood unaware of her celebrated Black ancestors. An unanticipated meeting was to change her life.…
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Canada’s famous first black doctor National Review of Medicine Montreal, Quebec, Canada Volume 1, Number 4 (2004-02-28) Marvin Ross Born in Toronto in 1837, Dr Anderson Abbott was a close friend of Abe Lincoln but refused to serve in the US Colored Troops Not only was Anderson Ruffin Abbott the first black man to graduate…