Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Tag: Dedria Humphries Barker

Author Event: Dedria Humphries Barker on AADL.TV

2020-08-19

White women who for love crossed the 19th century Jim Crow color line for a new life in a Black family were highly unusual and often ostracized. But one such woman was Alice Donlan. Her interracial family braved further complication when her husband died in 1912, and Alice put their three children in an orphanage.…
Mother of Orphans: The True and Curious Story of Irish Alice, A Colored Man’s Widow

2019-07-30

“Mother of Orphans” is the compelling true story of Alice, an Irish-American woman who defied rigid social structures to form a family with a black man in Ohio in 1899.
The Beiging of America, Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the Twenty-First Century

2017-07-05

“The Beiging of America, Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the Twenty-First Century,” takes on “race matters” and considers them through the firsthand accounts of mixed race people in the United States.