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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Belle de Costa Greene: Library Director, Advocate, and Rare Books Expert. Headlines & Heroes: Newspapers, Comics, & More Fine Print Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 2022-02-08 Joanna Colclough, Reference Librarian Serial and Government Publications Division Belle de Costa Greene, Oct. 1, 1929. Photograph by Bain News Service. George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints…
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“A question which is having some discussion here is: Can a mulatto whose father was a white man register under the ‘grandfather clause?’”
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Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction Awarded to Louise Erdrich News from the Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 2015-03-17 Winner to Participate in This Year’s National Book Festival Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has announced that Louise Erdrich, author of such critically acclaimed novels as “Love Medicine,” “The Last Report on the Miracles…
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Natasha Trethewey Presents Final Lecture as U.S. Poet Laureate, May 14 News from the Library of Congress Library of Congress 2014-04-17 Natasha Trethewey will conclude her tenure as the 19th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress with an evening lecture in the Coolidge Auditorium on May 14. The lecture will start…
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Library of Congress Appoints Natasha Trethewey To Second Term as U.S. Poet Laureate News from the Library of Congress The Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 2013-06-10 Trethewey Will Launch Project as Part of the PBS NewsHour Poetry Series Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has appointed Natasha Trethewey to serve a second term as U.S.…
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Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey Will Read Civil War Poems Jan. 30 The Library of Congress News Releases Washington, D.C. 2013-01-04 Press contact: Donna Urschel (202) 707-1639 Public contact: Robert Casper (202) 707-5394 U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey will read selections from her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection “Native Guard,” in commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the Civil…
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Thomas Jefferson advertises for a runaway slave in Williamsburg’s newspaper The Virginia Gazette Williamsburg, Virginia 1769-09-14 Source: Library of Congress: Thomas Jefferson: Creating a Virginia Republic Courtesy of the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virgiania Runaway slaves were not unknown on the Jefferson plantations. In this 1769 advertisement Thomas Jefferson, who had inherited half of his…
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Poet Laureate Inaugural Reading Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building (ground floor) (view map) 10 First Street, SE Washington, D.C. 2012-09-13, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) Natasha Trethewey, the 19th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry of the Library of Congress, will kick off the Library’s literary season with a reading. The event is free…
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Librarian of Congress Appoints Natasha Trethewey Poet Laureate Library of Congress News from the Library of Congress 2012-06-07 Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today announced the appointment of Natasha Trethewey as the Library’s Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2012-2013. Trethewey, the 19th Poet Laureate, will take up her duties in the fall, opening…