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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Barack Obama’s “Slave” Ancestor and the Politics of Genealogy George Mason University’s History News Network 2012-08-02 Honor Sachs, Assistant Professor of History Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina On July 30, the New York Times broke a story about the Obama family’s ties to slavery. Not Michelle Obama. Her family connection to slavery has been…