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: Michael Morris Healy
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Hell-Roaring Mike We’re History 2015-12-03 James M. O’Toole, Clough Professor of History Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts Captain Healy aboard the Revenue Cutter Bear, with his pet parrot, c.1895. (Photo: U.S. Coast Guard) The Coast Guard icebreaker Healy is back in its home port of Seattle after four months at sea. On…
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Passing free Boston College Magazine Summer 2003 Black in the South, Irish in the North, The Healys Slipped the Bonds of Race in Civil War America James M. O’Toole, Associate Professor of History Boston College When Michael Morris Healy and Eliza Clark entered into a common-law union in 1829, they violated perhaps the most powerful…
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The remarkable saga of a mixed-race family in nineteenth-century America