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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One thing that I learned while doing all my research was that there was a lot that I hadn’t learned in school. For instance, I learned the Southeast was just a empty wilderness when the settlers arrived at Jamestown. But in my research I discovered that it was crawling with people. Hundreds of thousands of…
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Author Explores Racial Mixing In New Historical Novel VPR News Vermont Public Radio 2012-03-14 Neal Charnoff, Reporter; Local Host All Things Considered We last heard from writer Lisa Alther in 2007, when she spoke with VPR’s Neal Charnoff about her memoir, Kinfolks. Alther has returned to fiction in a big way with her epic historical…