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  2. Multiracial Americans - Wikipedia

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    Because the women were free, their mixed-race children were born free; they and their descendants formed most of the families of free people of color during the colonial period in Virginia. The scholar Paul Heinegg found that eighty percent of the free people of color in North Carolina in censuses from 1790 to 1810 could be traced to families ...

  3. Multiracial people - Wikipedia

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    The terms multiracial people refer to people who are of multiple races, [1] and the terms multi-ethnic people refer to people who are of more than one ethnicities. [2] [3] A variety of terms have been used both historically and presently for multiracial people in a variety of contexts, including multiethnic, polyethnic, occasionally bi-ethnic, biracial, mixed-race, Métis, Muwallad, [4] Melezi ...

  4. Mulatto - Wikipedia

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    [85] [86] By the 1700s, the majority of the population was mixed race, forming the basis of the Dominican ethnicity as a distinct people well before independence was achieved. [87] During colonial times, mixed-race/mulatto Dominicans had a lot of influence, they were instrumental in the independence period and the founding of the nation.

  5. Melungeon - Wikipedia

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    Melungeon (/ m ə ˈ l ʌ n dʒ ən / mə-LUN-jən) (sometimes also spelled Malungean, Melangean, Melungean, Melungin [3]) was a slur [4] historically applied to individuals and families of mixed-race ancestry with roots in colonial Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina primarily descended from free people of color and white settlers.

  6. Shemar Moore Recalls Struggling with Being Mixed-Race ... - AOL

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    Back when Shemar Moore was growing up, he felt weighed down by a lot of existential questions. An only child born in Oakland, Calif., to mother Marilyn Wilson-Moore, who was White, and father ...

  7. Mixed-blood - Wikipedia

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    Some of the most prominent in the 19th century were "mixed-blood" or mixed-race descendants of fur traders and Native American women along the northern frontier. The fur traders tended to be men of social standing and they often married or had relationships with daughters of Native American chiefs, consolidating social standing on both sides.

  8. Alex Wagner's epic mixed-race memoir Futureface makes the ...

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    Alex Wagner, political journalist and author of "Futureface: A Family Mystery, An Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging" talks with HelloGiggles about her investigation into her mixed-race ...

  9. Mixed-race voters say Trump’s attacks on Harris’ race are ...

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    Emily Grullón, 33, of Los Angeles, said Trump’s comment only highlight the microaggressions mixed-race people often experience in the United States. She said she hopes this controversy will ...