{"id":61301,"date":"2021-08-21T03:16:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T03:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61301"},"modified":"2021-08-21T03:16:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T03:16:04","slug":"yes-there-are-women-of-color-in-the-dar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61301","title":{"rendered":"Yes, There Are Women of Color in the DAR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, There Are Women of Color in the DAR<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Washingtonian<\/a>
2021-04-07<\/p>\n

Rosa Cartagena<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Reisha Raney<\/a> at the headquarters of the DAR’s Maryland chapter<\/a>. Photograph by Lauren Bulbin<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

A Maryland researcher\u2014and relative of Thomas Jefferson<\/a>\u2014is exploring their stories.<\/em><\/p>\n

Reisha Raney<\/a> had never listened to a podcast when she decided to start one last year. A mathematician who runs a systems-engineering company in Fort Washington<\/a>, Raney has, as a side project, spent years researching women of color who have joined the Daughters of the American Revolution<\/a>. She was drawn to this topic for one obvious reason: Raney herself is a Black member of the DAR<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To Raney, the backgrounds of people like her\u2014which often involve disturbing relationships between enslavers and the enslaved\u2014represent an important aspect of our past. So after a two-week crash course in podcasting, she launched Daughter Dialogues<\/em><\/a>, which features her interviews with current DAR members. \u201cI had no expectation to ever run into any of these other Black women\u201d in the society, she says. \u201cWe were so scarce that I expected to be the only one in the room all the time.\u201d In fact, that hasn\u2019t been the case; she has so far found and interviewed 22 women of color. Still, that\u2019s a tiny fraction of the DAR\u2019s 180,000-plus membership. (The group doesn\u2019t keep track of racial demographics.)…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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