{"id":7470,"date":"2010-06-03T04:03:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T04:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7470"},"modified":"2015-11-01T01:30:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T01:30:44","slug":"exploring-the-many-facets-of-mixed-race-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7470","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the Many Facets of Mixed-Race Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/26\/exploring-the-many-facets-of-mixed-race-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\">Exploring the Many Facets of Mixed-Race Identity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Renegade South: histories of unconventional southerners<\/a><br \/>\n2010-05-26<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.txstate.edu\/history\/people\/faculty\/bynum.html\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria E. Bynum<\/a><\/strong>, Moderator and Emeritus Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Texas State University, San Marcos<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks,<em> The Family Origins of Vernon Dahmer, Civil Rights Activist<\/em>, by Yvonne Bivins and Wilmer Watts Backstrom, published December 6, 2009 on <em>Renegade South<\/em>, has received increased attention and interesting comments from readers. I\u2019m pleased that Tiffany Jones even republished it on her blog, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/mulattodiaries.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mulatto Diaries<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A few readers of <em>Renegade South<\/em> posed interesting questions after reading the Dahmer history.\u00a0 \u201dMs T. A.\u201d, for example, wondered what caused <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vernon_Dahmer\" target=\"_blank\">Vernon Dahmer<\/a>, a man of limited African ancestry, to identify as \u201cblack,\u201d and ultimately sacrifice his life working for black civil rights. Also, in regard to racial identification, A.D. Powell (author of <em>Passing for Who You Really Are: Studies in Support of Multiracial Whiteness<\/em>), drew attention to two instances in which the mixed-race infants of unmarried white women were reportedly given to mulatto families to be raised.<\/p>\n<p>To better understand the ways in which economic class as well as race have historically shaped multiracial communities, I returned to my research files on mixed-race people, and also to a few books on my shelf.\u00a0 In her 1986 history of the Horne family, for example, Gail Lumet Buckley illuminated the \u201cold black bourgeoisie\u201d from which her mother, Lena Horne, descended. That elite group, writes Buckley, was comprised of \u201cthree segments of black society in existence before the Civil War: free northern blacks, free southern blacks, and \u2018favored\u2019 slaves.\u201d (The Hornes: An American Family, p. 4)*&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/26\/exploring-the-many-facets-of-mixed-race-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exploring the Many Facets of Mixed-Race Identity Renegade South: histories of unconventional southerners 2010-05-26 Victoria E. Bynum, Moderator and Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos In recent weeks, The Family Origins of Vernon Dahmer, Civil Rights Activist, by Yvonne Bivins and Wilmer Watts Backstrom, published December 6, 2009 on Renegade South, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,394,20],"tags":[2317,1453,1454],"class_list":["post-7470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-renegade-south-histories-of-unconventional-southerners","tag-victoria-bynum","tag-victoria-e-bynum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470","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=7470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43649,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470\/revisions\/43649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}