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: California Digital Newspaper Collection
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Marriage and cohabitation have become so common in New York and Boston as scarcely to attract attention, except as the astounding fact occasionally breaks upon one, that there are whole blocks and rows of houses with ‘every tenement occupied by families the head of each of which is, the one black and the other white!’…
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Amalgamation, North and South Sacramento Daily Union Volume 24, Number 3619 (1862-11-03) page 4, column 2 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection Driven from every other position by the force of argument or the force of facts, the advocates of a doomed system flourish before the eyes of the ignorant the bugbear of amalgamation. Amalgamation, they…
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Are You Ready for the Census? Sacramento Daily Union Volume 19, Number 2862 (1860-05-29) page 1, column 4 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection On the first of June, Friday next, the various Deputy Marshals in the different portions of the State will commence their labors in taking the census of the United States, which mast…
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Counting The People San Francisco Call Sunday, 1890-06-01 page 6, column 7 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection Some of the Inquires to Be Made by the Census Enumerators in June The eleventh census of the United States will be taken during the month of June. The census enumerators will begin their work on to-morrow, and…
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Tries to Marry Quadroon Los Angeles Herald Volume 35, Number 31 (1907-11-02) page 2, column 6 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection By Associated Press YUMA, Ariz,, Nov. 1-M. G. Graff, aged 21 years, white, of Riverside, Cal., and Addle Burkhart, aged 20, were refused the office of marriage by Probate Judge Godfrey here today and…
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Brown Man and Fiancee Can Not Get Knot Tied San Francisco Call Volume 107, Number 106 (1910-03-16) page 3, column 5 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection Unfeeling Goldfield Sheriff Suggests a Hurried Departure GOLDFIELD, Nev., March 15.—George Masaki, a Japanese gardener, and Juliette S. Schwann, both of Los Angeles, were unable to get a judge…
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Race-Crossing Sacramento Daily Union Volume 2, Number 4 (1890-06-08) page 1, column 4 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection Lima, the capital of Peru, is pronounced to be the headquarters of all the world’s mongreldom. Its population is the product of three centuries of race-crossing, and a scientific investigator finds easily distinguishable among the inhabitants the…
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The Mixed Race of India Sacramento Daily Union Volume 84, Number 71 1892-11-11 page 4, column 3 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection Eurasia has no boundaries. It lies, a varying social fact, all over India, thick in the great cities, thickest in Calcutta, where the conditions of climate and bread-wining are most suitable; where, moreover,…