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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The Law Could Make You Rich Common-Place A Common Place, An Uncommon Voice Extra Issue: Volume 13, Number 3.5 (June 2013) Jared Hardesty Department of History Boston College Jared Hardesty is a PhD candidate in history at Boston College and is currently writing a dissertation on slavery, freedom, and unfreedom in eighteenth-century Boston Julie Winch,…
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Exploring Grays in a Black-and-White World Miller-McCune 2011-07-19 Julia M. Klein Two new books explore the intersection of race and identity in America by investigating families whose biracial members might—or might not—“pass” as white. Defining racial identity in the United States has always been a fraught enterprise, involving shifting intersections of law, custom, class, ancestry…
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The Clamorgans: One Family’s History of Race in America [Review: Eubanks] The Washington Independent Review of Books 2011-07-04 W. Ralph Eubanks, Director of Publishing at the Library of Congress Author of Ever Is a Long Time and The House at the End of the Road Julie Winch, The Clamorgans: One Family’s History of Race in…
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The Clamorgans: One Family’s History of Race in America Hill and Wang (an imprint of Macmillan) May 2011 432 pages 6 x 9 inches, 8 Pages of Black-and-White Illustrations ISBN: 978-0-8090-9517-9, ISBN10: 0-8090-9517-3 Julie Winch, Professor of History University of Massachusetts, Boston The historian Julie Winch uses her sweeping, multigenerational history of the unforgettable Clamorgans…
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The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis (Book Review) Journal of Southern History Vol. 67 2001 Lloyd A. Hunter Franklin College of Indiana The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis. By Cyprian Clamorgan. Edited and with an introduction by Julie Winch. (Columbia, Mo., and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 1999. Pp. xiv, 122. $27.50, ISBN 0-8262-1236-0.)…
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In 1858, Cyprian Clamorgan wrote a brief but immensely readable book entitled “The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis.” The grandson of a white voyageur and a mulatto woman, he was himself a member of the “colored aristocracy.” In a setting where the vast majority of African Americans were slaves, and where those who were free…