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: Henry Ward Beecher
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What motivates someone to disguise their race, gender, religion, etc.? Today Danielle explores the complicated history of passing in the United States.
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This article examines two paintings from the antebellum period, “The Slave Market” (ca. 1859) by an unidentified artist and “The Freedom Ring” (1860) by Eastman Johnson, which involve the purchase of nearly white slaves, and attempts to delineate the motivation for presenting these images before the public. These paintings functioned much as slave narratives, and…
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On the Trail of Brooklyn’s Underground Railroad The New York Times 2007-10-12 John Strausbaugh LAST month the City of New York gave Duffield Street in downtown Brooklyn an alternate name: Abolitionist Place. It’s an acknowledgment that long before Brooklyn was veined with subway lines, it was a hub of the Underground Railroad: the network of…
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BROOKLYN INTELLIGENCE.; The Sanford-street Catastrophe. CONDITION OF THE WOUNDED-BURIAL OF THE DEAD.
BROOKLYN INTELLIGENCE.; The Sanford-street Catastrophe. CONDITION OF THE WOUNDED-BURIAL OF THE DEAD. The New York Times 1860-02-06 …AN INTERESTING SCENE IN PLYMOUTH CHURCH — PURCHASE OF A SLAVE BY THE CONGREGATION. — Another case of the ransom of a slave occurred yesterday in Plymouth Church. The circumstances were of touching interest. A good-looking and intelligent…
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“May she read liberty in your eyes?” Beecher, Boucicault and the Representation and Display of Antebellum Women’s Racially Indeterminate Bodies Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism Volume 26, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages. 127-144 DOI: 10.1353/dtc.2012.0007 Lisa Merrill, Professor of Speech Communication, Rhetoric, Performance Studies Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York Prelude In 1856 Reverend Henry…
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5 Shades of Pink: A Coerced Identity In cooperation with The Graduate Association of Rhetoric and Performance Studies. A Graduate Thesis Performance Exploring Biracial Identity in the 19th Century. Monroe Lecture Center Theater California Avenue, South Campus Hofstra University 2009-03-19 19:30 (Local Time) by Melissa J. Edwards Hofstra University This performance explores the influences of…