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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Before Green and Bouchet, another African American Yale College grad. Maybe. Yale Alumni Magazine 2014-03-07 Mark Alden Branch ’86 Just last Friday, we told you that the first African American to graduate from Yale College was not Edward Bouchet in 1874, but Richard Henry Green in 1857. Since then, though, we’ve been reminded of two…
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Yale College’s first black grad: it’s not who you think Yale Alumni Magazine 2014-02-28 Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL Mark Alden Branch ’86 In 1874, Edward Bouchet became the first African American to graduate from Yale College. Or so the university’s histories tell us—and we’ve reported it ourselves more than once. Yet that very year, a…