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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Playwright Adrienne Dawes imagines an dystopian future — with humor Austin American-Statesman Austin, Texas 2016-01-16 Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, Arts Critic Adrienne Dawes (Laura Skelding) Adrienne Dawes donned denim recently when she stopped by Salvage Vanguard Theater for a rehearsal of her latest play to debut at the indie East Austin venue. “Denim Doves” opens…
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The Orange County War of 1856 W. T. Block, (1920-2007) 1979 Reprinted from W. T. Block, “Meanest Town on The Coast,” Old West, Winter, 1979, pp. 10ff. Sources: Galveston Weekly News and Tri-Weekly News, June 1 to July 15, 1856. The issue of July 15 of Tri-Weekly News contains a full, 8-column page of the…
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Crossing the color line Baylor University August 2011 107 pages Alisha Hash A Thesis Approved by the Department of History Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Baylor University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Miscegenation, a word not coined until the Civil War, has been an intrinsic part…
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Yellow Rose of Texas The Handbook of Texas Online Texas State Historical Association 2012-01-21 Jeffrey D. Dunn James Lutzweiler “The Yellow Rose of Texas,” one of the iconic songs of modern Texas and a popular traditional American tune, has experienced several transformations of its lyrics and periodic revivals in popularity since its appearance in the…
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Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans University of Texas Press 2001 389 pages 6 x 9 in., 50 b&w illus., 4 maps Paperback ISBN: ISBN: 978-0-292-75254-2 Martha Menchaca, Professor of Anthropolgy University of Texas, Austin The history of Mexican Americans is a history of the intermingling of races—Indian,…
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The first history of race relations in Dallas from its founding until today.
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Escaping to Destinations South: The Underground Railroad, Cultural Identity, and Freedom Along the Southern Borderlands National Park Service Network to Freedom 2012-06-20 through 2012-06-24 St. Augustine, Florida The Network to Freedom has joined with local partners to present an annual UGRR [Underground Railroad] conference beginning in 2007. These conferences bring together a mix of grass…
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Bynum: The Long Shadow of the Civil War (2010) The Civil War Monitor: A New Look at America’s Greatest Conflict 2011-10-19 Laura Hepp Bradshaw Carnegie Mellon University The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies by Victoria E. Bynum. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0807833819. “Few…
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Texas bucks U.S. trend on standardized scoring Houston Chronicle 2011-07-25 Jennifer Radcliffe It will tally multiracial students but not report their scores separately Multiracial students are being tallied for the first time in Texas history, but their standardized test scores won’t appear as a separate group when accountability ratings are released Friday. As it…
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Asians in S.A. claim multiracial identity San Antonio Express-News 2011-06-26 Elaine Ayala and Kelly Guckian San Antonio’s Asian residents are more likely to self-identify as being of more than one race or ethnicity than their U.S. and Texas counterparts, according to new 2010 Census data. The trend indicates not only intermarriage with whites and Hispanics since…