February 2012
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Pain of 'Trail of Tears' shared by Blacks as well...
CNN | Tiya Miles | 2/27/12
African American history, as it is often told, includes two monumental migration stories: the forced exodus of Africans to the Americas during the brutal Middle Passage of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, and the voluntary migration of Black residents who moved from southern farms and towns to northern cities in the early 1900s in search of “the warmth of...
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Got Any Suggestions?
Hey ya’ll! I hope everyone is doing well!
There have been a lot of new followers lately and I thought now would be a great time to welcome everyone and invite you all to contribute to the blog. I do my best to post anything relevant that I come across but I’m sure all of you have content and ideas too.
What else would you like to see on the blog? Feedback is always appreciated. You...
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chocol8luv:
“What motivates people who look “black” to claim to be Indian? When answered in a manner divorced from lived experience, the question produces many misplaced expectations about black and Indian mixed-bloods and demonstrates the fixity with which American race making practices ascribe blackness. The question is central because it engages the problematic American cultural practice of...
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Loving v. Virginia Comes to Life in Tribeca Film →
WNYC | Jami Floyed | 04/22/11
The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival is in full swing, here in New York, celebrating it’s tenth year with a bevy of science fiction, drama and even horror films to capture the imagination. But the genre in which I am most interested, this time around, is a love story - disguised as a documentary.
It’s called “The Loving Story: A Long Walk Home,” and it tells the...
One of the interesting things about White Historiography, this Eurocentric...
– Jan Carew, from Black Seminoles (via daydreamingaimlessly)
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seminole swagger.
deluxvivens:
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Science 13 February 1891: "the moral and physical... →
deluxvivens:
AFRICAN AND AMERICAN: THE CONTACT OF NEGRO AND INDIAN
article by white anthropologist detailing black and native intermarriage and interaction with an emphasis on the east coast.