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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Deconstructing a Manumission Document: Mary Stafford’s Free Paper The Georgia Historical Quarterly Volume 89, Number 3 (Fall 2005) pages 285-317 Mary R. Bullard This article examines the manumission document of Mary Stafford. In early nineteenth-century Georgia, manumitting one’s slave property was a personal matter loosely regulated by the state. In exchange for a one dollar…
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The first mixed race student is admitted to Wheaton Wheaton College History Wheaton College, Newton, Massachusetts 2011-02-02 Deanna Hauck The first African-American student to attend Wheaton probably did so unbeknownst to the school. In 1856-57, Mary E. Stafford of Cumberland Island, Georgia attended Wheaton. She was the daughter of a white father [Robert Stafford] and an…