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: Carole Merritt
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African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman Southern Spaces: A Journal about Real and Imagined Spaces and Places of the US South and their Global Connections 2004-03-16 DOI: 10.18737/M7XP4B Carole Merritt Portrait of Adrienne Herndon, date unknown. (c) The Herndon Home. Overview Ahead of her time and outside of her assigned place, Adrienne…
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The Herndons: An Atlanta Family University of Georgia Press 2002-06-21 272 pages 8 x 10 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-2309-1 Carole Merritt, Director The Herndon Home, Atlanta, Georgia A compelling portrait of one of Atlanta’s most prominent African American families Born a slave and reared a sharecropper, Alonzo Herndon (1858-1927) was destined to drudgery in the red…