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: Anita Hemming
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In the many conversations with her since her story has been made public Miss Hemming[s] has attempted no defense of her position other than to say no one asked her while she was in college if she were white or colored. She takes the ground that she was not under moral obligations to announce her…
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BEAUTIFUL ANITA HEMMING. STORY OF THE VASSAR GRADUATE BORN OF NEGROES. The Sacramento Daily Record-Union Friday, 1897-09-24 page 6, columns 1-4 Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. STORY OF THE VASAR GRADUATE BORN OF NEGROS She Kept the Secret of Her Birth for Years From Her Roommate. This is the story of…