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: West Virginia
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NASA on Friday officially renamed a facility in West Virginia after Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician and centenarian whose barrier-breaking career was depicted in the film “Hidden Figures.”
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My Ancestor’s Name and Race Changed in Census Records. Why? The Root 2016-01-01 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. University Professor; Director, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research Harvard University Anna L. Todd, Researcher New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS), Boston, Massachusetts 1860 U.S. census for Hardy County, Va. U.S. census Tracing…
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Grad student Alex Finley found her roots — and more William & Mary News and Events The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 2014-11-24 Jim Ducibella, Communications Specialist This is part one of a two-story series. Check back Nov. 26 for the second part. – Ed. As a child, Alex Finley remembers going through…
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Mixed bloods of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia Washington Academy of Sciences Volume 36, Number 1 (1946-01-15) pages 1-13 Source: Biodiversity Heritage Library William Harlen Gilbert, Jr. Library of Congress We are accustomed to think of West Virginia as a racially homogeneous State populated by Old Americans of English, Scotch, and Scotch-Irish descent with…
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W.Va. historian to talk on pre-Civil War slave economy The Charleston Gazette Charleston, West Virginia 2013-04-09 Douglas Imbrogno CHARLESTON, W.Va.—Ending slavery was a moral question that haunted early American history, but it was one inextricably tangled up in economics. While West Virginia was a state born in 1863 out of the tumult over slavery and…
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The African American Experience in Antebellum Cabell County, Virginia/West Virginia, 1810-1865 Ohio Valley History Filson Historical Society Volume 11, Number 3, Fall 2011 pages 3-23 Cicero M. Fain III, Assistant Professor of History College of Southern Maryland Located on the Ohio River in western Virginia, adjacent to southeastern Ohio and eastern Kentucky, antebellum Cabell County…
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Origin Traditions of American Racial Isolates: A Case of Something Borrowed Appalachian Journal Volume 11, Number 3 (Spring 1984) pages 201-213 David Henige University of Wisconsin, Madison Beginnings have an irritating but essential fragility and one that should be taken to heart by all who occupy themselves with history. —Pierre Teilhard de Chardin There are…
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The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that 2010 Census population totals and demographic characteristics have been released for communities in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. These data have provided the first look at population counts for small areas and race, Hispanic origin, voting age and housing unit data released from…
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Greg Carroll Draws Large Crowd for Talk on Melungeon Heritage West Virginia Archives & History West Virginia Division of Culture & History Volume 11, Number 8 (October 2010) page 2 Archives historian Greg Carroll drew a large crowd for his talk [2010-09-09] on groups of people in the Appalachian area and beyond commonly called Melungeon.…