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: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers
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A clerical correspondent writes us from the Southern coast protesting against the rapid tendency to amalgamation… Franklin Repository 1863-12-09 page 4, column 4 Source: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library A clerical correspondent writes us from the Southern coast protesting against the rapid tendency to amalgamation. He says that…
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Governor Northen says that miscegenation by law will never, take place in the south. But miscegenation in the south has already taken place. It has been on the road over 200 years. Not miscegenation by law, but by brute force, which is the very worst form of law. Who started it? Not the negroes, I…
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Speaking of morals, you asked me what effect the female population of mixed blood was going to have on society here [in Charleston, South Carolina]. I have looked somewhat into the matter since my return, from what I can learn, I believe there is hardly a young man here of Southern birth, who can afford…
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The report provides a bleak assessment of life in post-war South Carolina, particularly for union men and blacks who “are at the mercy of a set of wretches, as unprincipled as they are cruel.”
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A Sad Case Of Miscegenation Valley Spirit (source: Pittsburgh Post) Franklin County, Virginia 1867-02-06 page 1, column 8 Source: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library The piece relates the story of a woman, who, after consenting to marry a returning white Union officer, had an affair with a black…
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President Johnson’s Message Staunton Spectator Staunton Virginia 1867-12-10 Column 1 Source: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library A full transcript of President Johnson’s recent address to both houses of Congress, in which he argues that the most pressing danger facing the nation is the attempt “to Africanize the half…