{"id":38531,"date":"2014-11-26T21:05:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T21:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38531"},"modified":"2014-11-26T21:05:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T21:05:46","slug":"glenn-chavis-inquiry-helps-shed-light-on-mixed-race-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38531","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Chavis: Inquiry helps shed light on mixed-race heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Glenn Chavis: Inquiry helps shed light on mixed-race heritage<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The News & Record<\/a>
\nGreensboro, North Carolina
\n2014-11-25<\/p>\n

Glenn Chavis<\/strong><\/a>, Community Columnist<\/p>\n

I recently received a call from a professor emeritus at Jackson State University who is working on a project dealing with a Tri-Racial Isolate<\/a> group called Turks, who once made Sumter County, S.C.<\/a>, their home.<\/p>\n

One day these Turks just disappeared from Sumter, he said, and he is trying to find out if any were buried in a graveyard at Bethesda Baptist Church in Sumter.<\/p>\n

Even though I had nothing to offer, he did share plenty of information with me regarding Tri-Racial Isolates, which include Chavises.<\/p>\n

This topic has always been of interest to me because the Shepherd\/Chavis family started with black blood, then mixed with white blood and, after that, Indian blood. They were located mainly in the Franklin area.<\/p>\n

Like most Tri-Isolates, some looked white, some black and others Indian. As a youngster visiting family in Franklin, I recall my ancestors living in their own little community. Denied by the Indian side, they were recognized by the white Shepherds…<\/p>\n

…After visiting numerous websites dealing with Tri-Isolates, I found many definitions, interpretations and histories of these people. Regardless of slight differences, Tri-Isolates and Biracials existed hundreds of years ago, as well as today.<\/p>\n

They usually stayed among themselves and worked the land as farmers.<\/p>\n

Suddenly, I remembered that more than 30 years ago, a friend sent me a paper done by Edward Price<\/a> of Los Angeles State College titled \u201cA Geographic Analysis of White-Negro-Indian Racial Mixtures in Eastern United States<\/a>.\u201d It was published in the June 1953 edition of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers<\/em><\/a>…<\/p>\n

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

Glenn Chavis: Inquiry helps shed light on mixed-race heritage The News & Record Greensboro, North Carolina 2014-11-25 Glenn Chavis, Community Columnist I recently received a call from a professor emeritus at Jackson State University who is working on a project dealing with a Tri-Racial Isolate group called Turks, who once made Sumter County, S.C., their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,459,8,5113,20],"tags":[18532,18531,1449,18530],"class_list":["post-38531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-triracial","category-usa","tag-glenn-chavis","tag-news-record","tag-south-carolina","tag-the-news-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}