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: Belle da Costa Greene
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Spring 2023 Exhibition and Programming related to Belle da Costa Greene, famed librarian for J.P. Morgan and expert on incunabula.
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The Story Of J.P. Morgan’s ‘Personal Librarian’ — And Why She Chose To Pass As White Code Switch National Public Radio 2021-08-31 Karen Grigsby Bates, Senior Correspondent Marie Benedict (left) and Victoria Christopher Murray Phil Atkins This summer on Code Switch, we’re talking to some of our favorite authors about books that taught us about…
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The Washington Post talked to Terrell and Murray about what it was like to work on “The Personal Librarian” when so much of the world was falling apart.
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A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white in order to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict, and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray.
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Keep It Simple at TEDxIndianapolis The Indianapolis Star 2015-10-21 Leslie Bailey “When asked how he created his masterpiece, Michelangelo said, ‘It was easy. You just chip away that which does not look like David.’ What if our lives are our masterpiece? What if we chipped away all that was unnecessary, all the clutter and the…
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The recent discovery of Richard Greener’s papers could fill some of the gaps in his biography.
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‘It gives me gooseflesh’: Remarkable find in South Side attic Chicago Sun-Times 2012-03-10 Kim Janssen, Staff Reporter Richard Theodore Greener (1844-1922), Harvard Class of 1870 It wasn’t much more than a ghost house by the time Rufus McDonald got the call. The front door of the abandoned home near 75th and Sangamon was unlocked and…
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An Illuminated Life: Belle da Costa Greene’s Journey from Prejudice to Privilege (review) Libraries & the Cultural Record Volume 45, Number 3, 2010 E-ISSN: 1932-9555 Print ISSN: 1932-4855 pages 375-377 Nena Couch, Curator and Professor of Theater Ohio State University The life of the librarian seldom is acknowledged beyond the confines of the community in…
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The secret life of the sensational woman behind the Morgan masterpieces, who lit up New York society.