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: Florida
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A dazzling debut collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro-Latino life in Puerto Rico, Pittsburgh, Louisiana, Miami, and beyond—and an evocative meditation on belonging, the meaning of home, and how we secure freedom on our own terms
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Historians argue Roper’s story could have helped end US slavery earlier but supporters turned on him
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A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery University of North Carolina Press September 2011 (originally published in 1840) 50 pages 6 x 9, 4 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-6965-9 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8078-6966-6 Moses Roper (c1815-1891) The Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper can be read as…
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‘I am not a beggar’: Moses Roper, Black Witness and the Lost Opportunity of British Abolitionism Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies Published online 2022-02-09 DOI: 10.1080/0144039X.2022.2027656 Fionnghuala Sweeney, Reader in American and Black Atlantic Literatures Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Bruce E. Baker, Historian Paxton, Scotland, United Kingdom…
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Every 16th century Spanish expedition to Florida included Africans, both free and enslaved.
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He was buried in the erased College Hill Cemetery believed to be located in what is now the Italian Club Cemetery’s parking lot.
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David and Jessica Figari are navigating racial and political divides in their country — and in their family — that they never anticipated when they fell in love
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Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden’s raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where she found cult-like privilege, shocking racial disparities, rampant white-collar crime, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hiding in plain…