Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Free Negro Family: A Study of Family Origins Before the Civil War

    A class of free Negroes existed in America almost from the time that they were first introduced into the Virginia colony in 1619. Contrary to popular belief, the free class may even be said to be prior in origin to the slave class, since the first Negroes brought to America, did not have the status…

  • The Negro in Washington: A Study in Race Amalgamation

    The chief interest of the author in the Negro problem has centered about the matter of racial intermixture—the Mulatto problem—and most of his writings have had to do with this evil.

  • What Miscegenation is! And What We are to Expect Now That Mr. Lincoln is Re-elected

    What Miscegenation is! And What We are to Expect Now That Mr. Lincoln is Re-elected Waller & Willets, Publishers, New York c. 1865 8 pages Source: Harvard University via The Hathi Trust Digital Library L. Seaman, LL. D. “What, is Miscegenation?” is an oft repeated inquiry. A word not recognized by Webster, Johnson, or Worcester,…

  • Almost White

    Almost White Macmillan 1963 212 pages Original Classication ID: E184.A1 B53 Source: University of Michigan via The Hathi Trust Digital Library Brewton Berry Contents Preface 1. The Myth of the Vanishing Indian 2. Where Are They? 3. Who Are They? 4. What the Whites Believe 5. What the Negro Thinks 6. Etiquette 7. How They…

  • From Negro to Caucasian: or, How the Ethiopian is Changing His Skin

    A concise presentation of the manner in which many Negroes in America … have abandoned their… afiliation with Negroes

  • The Biological Status and Social Worth of the Mulatto

    The United States has something more than a “negro problem”; it has a mulatto problem. Our 10,000,000 coloredd fellow-citizens comprise somewhat less than 8,000,000 full-blooded negroes; approximately 2,000,000 contain varying percentages of “white” blood.  This “white man’s burden” has several cardinal aspects, notably, social, economic and political.