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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Abraham Galloway is the Black figure from the Civil War you should know about All Things Considered National Public Radio 2022-02-08 Elizabeth Blair, Senior Producer/Reporter, Arts Desk Engraved portrait of Abraham Galloway from William Still’s The Underground Railroad, published in 1872. William Still’s ‘The Underground Railroad,’ 1872 He has been compared to James Bond and…
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“White Enough to Pass”: Uncovering the story of John Wesley Gibson underbelly: From the Deepest Corners of the Maryland Historical Society Library 2016-01-21 Excerpt from William Still’s 1872 book, The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, & c., Narrating the Hardships Hair-breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in their Efforts…
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Irish Immigrants and the Underground Railroad Medium 2015-07-02 Liam Hogan A Ride for Liberty — The Fugitive Slaves, oil on paperboard, ca. 1862, Brooklyn Museum But the Irish are indeed a strange people. How varied their aspect — how contradictory their character. William Wells Brown (1852) What William Wells Brown should have said was “the Irish are human.” The…