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: Victoria Bynum
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Martha Wheeler, Eye-Witness to the “Free State of Jones” Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2017-07-02 Vikki Bynum, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History Texas State University, San Marcos Matthew McConaughey and Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Newt and Rachel, “The Free State of Jones,” STX Entertainment (2016) I’ll never forget the excitement I felt when, in the…
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I see similarities between Elizabeth Warren’s situation and that of many black people.
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Based on historian Victoria Bynum’s acclaimed book The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War, this film marks an important shift in the popular depiction of America’s greatest conflict as it takes viewers inside the complex inner civil wars many Americans fought during this period.
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Late last year, I was contacted by Raymont Hawkins-Jones, a descendant of a family I’d written about many years earlier: the Andersons of Granville County, North Carolina. The Andersons were one of the many fascinating free families of color that I’ve studied over the years, and I enjoyed learning more about their history from Raymont.
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Free State of Jones Capsizes Lost Cause Myths Process: A Blog For American History 2016-07-12 Matthew E. Stanley, Assistant Professor of History Albany State University, Albany, Georgia Reconstruction is perhaps the least understood period in American history, a distinction that has been both perpetuated by and reflected in popular culture since the late nineteenth century.…
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The Real Rebels: A Review of Free State of Jones with Reflections on Lost Causes The Labor And Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) 2016-07-12 Mark Lause, Professor of History University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio I can feel a certain sympathy for people who get hoodwinked into fighting for a Lost Cause that could never be worthy…
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Black and White in the Free State of Jones Process: A Blog For American History 2016-07-14 Nina Silber, Professor of History Boston University I’ll confess: I was fully prepared to be disappointed with the recently-released Free State of Jones. Not out of any disrespect toward the excellent historical scholarship behind the film, including Victoria Bynum’s…