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: Honor Sachs
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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…
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“Freedom By A Judgment”: The Legal History of an Afro-Indian Family Law and History Review Volume 30, Issue 1 (February 2012) pages 173-203 DOI: 10.1017/S0738248011000642 Honor Sachs, Assistant Professor of History Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina Forum: Ab Initio: Law in Early America On May 2, 1771, John Hardaway of Dinwiddie County, Virginia posted…