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: Mary Jane Seacole
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Florence Nightingale’s Rival Gets the Last Laugh
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From New York Times bestselling author Helen Rappaport comes a superb and revealing biography of Mary Seacole that is testament to her remarkable achievements and corrective to the myths that have grown around her.
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The History Guy celebrates National Nurses week with the forgotten history of Mary Seacole, who was a British nurse during the Crimean War.
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Florence Nightingale supporters in row over black rival’s new statue, claiming she is venerated based on ‘false achievements’ The Daily Mail 2016-06-20 Martin Robinson, UK Chief Reporter Mary Seacole set to have £500,000 statue unveiled at St Thomas, London But critics say that her legacy is hugely oversold for political reasons Florence Nightingale Society says…
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Mary Seacole – International Woman The Huffington Post, United Kingdom 2015-03-04 Elizabeth Anionwu, Emeritus Professor of Nursing University of West London Later this year a memorial statue to Mary Seacole will be unveiled in the gardens of St Thomas’ hospital, overlooking the River Thames and the Houses of Parliament. Sir Hugh Taylor, Chairman of Guys…
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She was a black woman, and she flouted convention. In an age that put ladies in the parlor and preferred them to be seen and not heard, she was nursing the British wounded, not in hospital wards with Florence Nightingale but on the Crimean battlefields—and off them, she was running a restaurant and hotel. She…