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: Marvin Jones
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Photoworks is delighted to host the work of acclaimed photojournalist and historian, Marvin Tupper Jones, in the exhibition, “Building a Mixed Race Community.” The show will be on display from February 9th – March 31st.
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Marvin Jones, Chowan Discovery Group executive director, has made it his life’s work to document the history of a northeastern North Carolina community of color.
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In today’s post, I’d like to explore those questions. By the end of considering them, I hope we will understand northeastern N.C.’s history a little better and understand where Edna Ferber found at least some of the inspiration for her most popular and enduring literary work…
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Loyal Southerners – a presentation by Marvin T. Jones Rock Creek Nature Center 5200 Glover Road, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20015 Saturday, 2016-05-07, 09:30-11:00 EDT (Local Time) Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director Chowan Discovery Group The story of the most famous of Southern Unionists, Newton Knight (left) will be screened on film. It stars Mathew McConaughey and…
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How one man has made a mark on history in northeast N.C. The Outer Banks Voice 2015-04-04 Ed Beckley Marvin T. Jones has a passion for local heritage and is responsible for a half dozen historical markers in the area. Our region’s rich history is brought to the fore each time someone who passes a…
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Chowan Discovery Group, Marvin T. Jones Backintyme.biz Blog Talk Radio 2014-12-20 Stacey Webb, Host Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director Chowan Discovery Group Author & Historian Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director & owner of Marvin T. Jones and Associates, specializing in corporate communications photography and photographic design. His love of the community of his birth led…
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Two Chowan Discovery Panels in Chicago Chowan Discovery Group Press Release 2014-10-27 Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director Thursday, 2014-11-13, 09:00 CST (Local Time) and Friday, 2014-11-14, 16:00 CST (Local Time) For the second consecutive conference, Chowan Discovery Group is hosting two panels at the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at DePaul University in Chicago. Address…
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The Robbins Family at War with Marvin Jones Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2014-04-03, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2014-04-04, 01:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director Chowan Discovery Group “The Robbins Family at War” – it is about a Native American family who lived through colonial wars of the…
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A Roanoke Island Colony Remembered Chowan Discovery Group 2014-02-25 Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director The Winton Triangle has ties to the subject of the latest Chowan Discovery-nominated marker, that of the Roanoke Island Freedmen’s Colony. During the Civil War when the colony existed, several Winton Triangle men enlisted in the United States Colored Troops in…
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Even though they lived under Jim Crow, they thrived: A Community of Free People—The Winton Triangle Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum 1901 Fort Place, Southeast Washington, D.C., 20020 202-633-4820 Saturday, 2014-02-01, 14:00-16:00 EST (Local Time) Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director Chowan Discovery Group For over 260 years, the Winton Triangle’s mixed-race landowning community successfully navigated slavery,…