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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A young playwright’s quest to ask difficult questions about race, class and gender The Los Angeles Times 2016-12-02 Margaret Gray Leah Nanako Winkler’s new play “Kentucky” is a comedy about a Japanese American woman raised in the South. Like her protagonist Hiro, Winkler is half-Japanese and grew up in Kentucky. Like Hiro, she left for New York…
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A Picture of Her ‘Kentucky’ Home The Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanese Daily News 2016-11-27 Mikey Hirano Culross Leah Nanako Winkler was born in Japan, raised in Lexington, Kentucky, and now lives in New York City. Leah Nanako Winkler arrived more than flustered, bounding into a dressing room at East West Players after having endured…
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Future Humans Will All Look Brazilian, Researcher Says Business Insider 2012-09-19 Natalie Wolchover It really happened: Six generations of inbreeding spanning the years 1800 to 1960 caused an isolated population of humans living in the hills of Kentucky to become blue-skinned. The startlingly blue people, all descendants of a French immigrant named Martin Fugate and…
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Cincy in 2060: 1 in 7 of us will be biracial The Cincinnati Enquirer 2014-10-21 Mark Curnutte, Social Justice/Minority Affairs Reporter Photos and video by: Cara Owsley, Staff Photojournalist A new index suggests many of our communities will look less like they do today and more like Austin or Washington, D.C. EAST PRICE HILL – …
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“Turning Up Their Noses at the Colonel”: Eastern Aristocracy, Western Democracy, and Richard Mentor Johnson Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Volume 111, Number 4, Autumn 2013 pages 525-561 DOI: 10.1353/khs.2014.0022 Miles Smith Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas In February 1849, the Kentucky legislature debated who would represent the state and fill the open…
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Henry Samuel, Frankfort Barber and Free Man of Color Random Thoughts on History: My musings on American, African American, Southern, Civil War, Reconstruction, and Public History topics and books 2013-03-19 Tim Talbott Frankfort, Kentucky Recently reading Knights of the Razor: Black Barbers in Slavery and Freedom got me to wondering if Frankfort had any black…
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In new book, two Kentucky families discover surprising racial histories Lexington Herald-Leader Lexington, Kentucky 2011-05-15 Linda B. Blackford Freda Spencer Goble of Paintsville knew that she hailed from a proud and hardworking clan that carved a life out of the hills and hollows of frontier Johnson County. What she didn’t know was that one of…