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Find out more about past projects and upcoming events!
Videos From Past Events
IG Live Book Chat With Nikki Payne
Bookish AfroLatina chats with the fabulous Nikki Payne about her brand new book The Princess and The P.I.
Leonas Chat Live
Bookish AfroLatina chats with the amazing Adriana Herrera about her Las Leonas series and its last installment: A Tropical Rebel Gets The Duke.
Public Library Association
Clayton Library Presents:
"The Power of Exclusion: Racism, Passing, Immigration, and the Census," by Gabby Womack
Race has been a part of the United States Federal Census since its founding, but its groups have been in flux ever since. Librarian and historian Gabby Womack, M.S., M.A., shares the history of exclusion and erasure behind the Mixed-Race, Black, Chinese, and Mexican categories from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century.
Public Library Association
Digging Deeper into Local and Family History with Census Data
"From 'Mulatto' to 'Negro': The 1930 United States Census and the Erasure of Mixed Race People," by Gabby Womack
Old North Church & Historic Site - Digital Speaker Series
How Fears of “Passing” Changed the 1930 U.S. Census by Gabby Womack
President's Day Book Chat:
Black History is American History with Bookish AfroLatina & Elizabeth Walther-Grant, co-founder of Merrimack Valley Black and Brown Voices (MVBBV)
Bookish AfroLatina (Gabby Womack) and Elizabeth Walther-Grant, co-founder of Merrimack Valley Black and Brown Voices (MVBBV) discuss Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar and other Founding Fathers who enslaved black folks.
What does learning the full history of the United States look like?
Context is key.
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