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: Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
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This family lives in the Stringer community of Jasper County. A school bus from Stringer white attendance center passes in front of their home and also a school bus from the white attendance center at Soso in Jones County. The School Board in Jasper County will not permit them to go to the white school…
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TO: Honorable Paul B. Johnson, Governor; Honorable Carroll Gartin, Lieutenant Governor FROM: Director, Sovereignty Commission SUBJECT: Louvenia Knight (Williamson) and her two sons, Edgar Williamson, born May 1, 1954, and Randy Williamson, born October 10, 1955
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Letter documenting the struggle of two children’s attempt to attend school Special Collections University of Southern Mississippi Libraries Item of the Month March 2010 Jennifer Brannock, Special Collections Librarian The Mississippi Department of Archives and History: Sovereignty Commission Online [Note from Steven F. Riley: For more on Newton Knight, Rachel Knight, and the “Free State…