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Mixed Experience History Month 2017: Fanny Eaton, muse and model
Fanny Eaton (1835-1924) was born in Jamaica. She was the daughter of woman of African descent and a white man. As a child, her family moved to England. In 1857, Eaton married the man with whom she...
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Mixed Experience History Month 2017: Moses Roper, abolitionist & truth-teller
Moses Roper (1815-1891) an enslaved mixed-race man wrote one of the earliest books about being enslaved. Roper was the son of a mixed-race enslaved woman and a white man who was their enslaver. At age...
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Mixed Experience History Month 2017: Chocolat, famous circus performer
Chocolat (born between 1865 and 1869-died 1917 ) whose birth name was Rafael had no known surname. Rafael was born in Cuba to an enslaved woman of African descent. As a child he was taken to Spain to...
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Mixed Experience History Month 2017: Norris Wright Cuney, politician
Norris Wright Cuney (1846-1898) was the son of a wealthy white plantation owner & politician and an enslaved African-American woman. The fourth of eight children, Cuney was spared the duties and...
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Mixed Experience History Month 2017: James Welch, award-winning writer
James Welch (1940-2003) was a mixed-race writer of Native American descent. Welch was the son of two mixed-race Native Americans of Blackfeet and A’aninin tribes. They were both raised with their...
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Mixed Experience History Month 2017: Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, Educator &...
Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, also known as Zitkala-Sa or Red Bird, was born in 1876 to a full-blooded Sioux woman and a white man. She struggled with her mixed-race heritage as a chid on the reservation as...
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Mixed Experience History Month 2017: Paula Gunn Allen, writer and scholar
Paula Gunn Allen, born in 1939 in New Mexico, was the daughter of a Lebanese-American man and a Laguna-Sioux-Scotch woman. She once described herself as a “multicultural event.” Her early education...
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Season 4, Episode 19: Writer/Literary Critic Janet Savage
LIVE 7/7/17 11:30am: I’m excited to talk to Janet Savage about her new book Jay Gatsby: A Black Man in Whiteface which is a close examination of the text of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life...
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Season 5, Episode 2: New York Times Bestselling Writer Julie Lythcott-Haims
RECORDED 11/21/17: I had a really dynamic and moving talk with New York Times bestselling writer Julie Lythcott-Haims about her new book Real American, a wonderful memoir about growing up biracial. The...
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Season 5, Episode 3: Award-Winning Writer Amina Gautier
LIVE 11/27/17 5PM EASTERN: I can’t wait to talk with award-winning writer Amina Gautier about her latest book of stories that has been scooping up a ton of prizes. This will be Amina’s second visit to...
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