Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Speaking of morals, you asked me what effect the female population of mixed blood was going to have on society here [in Charleston, South Carolina]. I have looked somewhat into the matter since my return, from what I can learn, I believe there is hardly a young man here of Southern birth, who can afford the expense, who does not protect one of these girls, and few married men who have not two families. Miscegenation is practiced here. I know of nearly a dozen cases where the parties are married. These girls are many of them beautiful, many almost pure white, with blue eyes and light hair, of fine figures and lady-like appearance. Many of them are much whiter than the majority of pure whites, who seem to belong to the order of women known as scraggy, and are the color of a liver colored pointer, having tan colored paws and faces. But few children are born where these girls are protected by single men, while some of the old men have larger colored families. Nothing can be done to rectify this evil, as these girls will not on any account marry a man with a drop of “nigger blood” in his veins.

“Life in the South,” Franklin Repository (via: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library), January 23, 1867, 2 (column 3). http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/news/fr1867/pa.fr.fr.1867.01.23.xml#02

Professor Marsha Daria to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

Posted in Articles, Audio, Identity Development/Psychology, Interviews, Live Events, Media Archive, United States, Women on 2010-06-30 12:09Z by Steven

Professor Marsha Daria to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow
Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks)
Episode: #160 – Professor Marsha D. Daria
When: Wednesday, 2010-06-30, 21:00Z (17:00 EDT, 14:00 PDT)

Marsha D. Daria, Associate Professor of Education (dariam@wcsu.edu)
Western Connecticut State University

Marsha D. Daria, Ph. D., Associate Professor of Education at Western Connecticut State University, is a former principal and classroom teacher. Her research interests are in multicultural education and health issues. She is currently working on a documentary about multiracial children.

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Danbury’s multiracial students to star in film

Posted in Articles, Identity Development/Psychology, New Media, Social Science, Teaching Resources, United States, Women on 2010-06-30 11:20Z by Steven

Danbury’s multiracial students to star in film

The Connecticut Post
2010-04-02

Eileen FitzGerald, Staff Writer

Danbury, Connecticut—The three boys wore jeans and long-sleeve T-shirts. The two girls each wore a dozen bracelets and necklaces. They looked like typical students in the library media center at Broadview Middle School.

It was their differences, however, that brought them together Monday. They’re subjects in a documentary in which Western Connecticut State University professor Marsha Daria is examining the identity and social relationships of multiracial children.

Daria is interviewing elementary, middle and high school students to help educators and teacher training programs consider multiracial students in the curriculum and school issues…

Read the entire article here.

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