{"id":16566,"date":"2011-09-27T20:45:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T20:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=16566"},"modified":"2014-02-18T02:18:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T02:18:50","slug":"16566","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=16566","title":{"rendered":"Brown Bag: Mixed-race tension in early America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brown Bag: Mixed-race tension in early America<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Daily Campus<\/a>: The Independent Voice of Southern Methodist University Since 1915
\nDallas, Texas
\n2011-09-21<\/p>\n

Logan May<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The struggle of mixed race families in Southwest America<\/a> was a daunting issue in the early 19th century.<\/p>\n

As part of the Brown Bag Lecture Series of the Southwest, SMU Director of Southwest Studies Andrew Graybill<\/a> shared a detailed account of a mixed White-Native American family from Montana<\/a> who faced an exponential amount of racial discrimination.<\/p>\n

In the Texana Room of DeGolyer Library Wednesday afternoon, listeners gathered and silently snacked on their lunches as Graybill spoke of the Clarke family.<\/p>\n

“To walk in two worlds was impossible,” Graybill said, “whites looked at mixed blood with repulsion.”<\/p>\n

His book, entitled A Mixture of So Many Bloods<\/em>, recalled the life of Helen Clarke and the backlash she received for being the daughter of a white man and a Native American woman. At this time in the early 1800s, marriage within the two races was common, and children served as brokers between the two groups. Helen’s father had a prominent role as a fur trader; therefore, the family was often the talk of the town…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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