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: baseball
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Looking back at Jackie Court, other Black trailblazers in Brown Athletics program
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The only woman in the National Baseball Hall of Fame had a fascinating — and confusing — past
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There’s a booming new voice in Wrigleyville, and it belongs to 21-year-old Jeremiah Paprocki. The Cubs hired Paprocki to be their new public-address announcer, making him the first African American in team history to hold the position. He also is thought to be the youngest P.A. announcer in Major League Baseball.
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The most powerful woman in baseball
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Celebrating the 1st Annual Mixed Heritage Day at Dodger Stadium (not) Mixed (up): A Biracial Swirl in a Black and White World 2016-08-28 Shannon Luders-Manuel What happens when a young, mixed race boy asks his mother what ethnic day is meant for him? The Los Angeles Dodgers have special days for certain ethnicities, but none celebrating mixed…
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Former Duquesne, Penn State athlete Cumberland Posey elected to Basketball Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 2016-04-05 Stephen J. Nesbitt, Beat Writer Courtesy of the Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, N.Y. Will become only person inducted into both professional basketball, baseball halls of fame The grass-roots campaign to get Cumberland “Cum” Posey enshrined in the…
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She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story Balzer + Bray (an imprint of HarperCollins) 2010-10-19 32 pages 8.5 in (w) x 11 in (h) x 0.25 in (d) Hardcover ISBN: 9780061349201 eBook ISBN: 9780062184801 Audrey Vernick Illustrated by Don Tate Effa always loved baseball. As a young woman, she would go to Yankee Stadium just…
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Queen of the Negro Leagues: Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles Scarecrow Press (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield) January 1998 298 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-57886-001-2 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4617-0708-0 James Overmyer, Member Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research The first woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, there was no…
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Was pro baseball’s first African-American player passing for white? Vox 2015-04-11 Jenée Desmond-Harris William Edward White on the 1879 Brown baseball team. White is in the second row, seated and wearing a hat. (Source: Brown University Archives via Slate) A story about professional baseball’s little-known first black player (well, possible first black player) raises as…