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Tag: Miscegenation

Photos from 11th Annual Loving Day Flagship Celebration - NYC
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Photos & updates from Loving Day flagship celebration - 2014
Mixed Mondays Film Series - Imitation of Life
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Part 1 of our summer Mixed Monday film series is a 1959 Lana Turner classic - Imitation of Life
Loving v. Virginia in Historical Context
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As important as Loving v. Virginia (1967) was, prohibitions on interracial marriage were in fact the last segregation laws to be invalidated. Loving reflected these broader political developments in the arena of race more than it caused them.
Race & Its Categories in Historical Perspective
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Although this historical account of the construction of the race notion in the West is widely accepted, disagreement exists about whether it describes the only instance in which a human society invented a race-like belief.
Mixed Experience History Month 2014
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Check in each weekday for a new profile by Heidi Durrow
On National Geographic's Prediction for 2050
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Will increased racial mixing finally and permanently redefine how we imagine our racial identities?
The Heathen School
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A new book about a 19th c. mission school & interracial marriages via NPR
1870's Interracial Couples
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African-American / Irish couples in 1870s NYC via The New York Times
Who Coined the Term "Miscegenation"?
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via Brooklyn Historical Society
"The tormented half-breed in film..."
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INTERVIEWER JEN CHAU:            I want to talk a little bit about your thoughts about mixed-heritage identity now [2012]. 

Mixed Race Britain
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Readers share thoughts on being mixed race in Britain via The Guardian
PHOTOS: Our Children Will Be President
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What does this 1967 movie have to do with President Obama?