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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Tag: Martha Jones
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At the inaugural Belinda Sutton Distinguished Lecture, Johns Hopkins Professor Martha Jones chronicles her journey into her family’s ties to slavery and to Harvard
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Martha S. Jones, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, will write four books for Basic Books, starting with an exploration of the history and legacy of slavery’s sexual violence.
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The answer is that [Elizabeth] Warren, like millions of other Americans, is mixed-race, and percentages shouldn’t matter when we consider such ancestry. Martha S. Jones, “Why calling Elizabeth Warren ‘Pocahontas’ is a slur against all mixed-race Americans,” The Washington Post, November 29, 2017. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/11/29/why-calling-elizabeth-warren-pocahontas-is-a-slur-against-all-mixed-race-americans.
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It’s part of the long history of erasing people of mixed heritage.
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Martha S. Jones – “The Children of Loving v. Virginia“ Organization of American Historians September 2015 An OAH Lecture by Martha S. Jones, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan This lecture was presented as part of the Created Equal initiative at Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana, in September 2015. Recorded by the…
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Panel talks multiracial identity in academics The Michigan Daily 2015-10-27 Alexa St John, Daily Staff Reporter According to a 2015 Pew Research Center report, 6.9 percent of all Americans 18 and older identify as multiracial. According to the University’s Office of the Registrar, last year, just over 3 percent of students identified as two or…
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Faculty Panel: Multiracialism Informing Academic Work University of Michigan Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery (Room 100) 913 S University Ave Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 2015-10-26, 16:00-18:00 CDT (Local Time) Series: What Does it Mean to be Multiracial in a Monoracial World? Join us for the first in a year-long series of events that explore what it…