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: David W. Blight
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David Blight has written the definitive biography of Frederick Douglass. With extraordinary detail he illuminates the complexities of Douglass’s life and career and paints a powerful portrait of one of the most important American voices of the 19th century.
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The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.
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Throughout modern history, the millions forced to flee as refugees and beg for asylum have felt Douglass’s agony, and thought his thoughts.
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My Bondage and My Freedom Yale University Press 2014 (originally published in 1855 by Miller, Orton & Mulligan) 432 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Paperback ISBN: 9780300190595 Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) Introduction and Notes by David W. Blight Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition…