Word: mcclaine
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...then that they started their still uncompleted quest to be considered Native Americans, McClain said. "They didn't want to lose their mixed race status." she said...
Kimberly A. McClain '89, who wrote her thesis on the Haliwa-Sapani Indians of North Carolina, will receive $1000 from a fund set up by Dubois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies Nathan I. Huggins in memory of his late sister, Kathryn Ann Huggins...
...McClain's thesis used the Haliwa-Sapani, who have tried for more than a century to change their racial classification from Black to Native American, as a case study of the racial classification system in the United States, she said...
...Haliwa-Sapani--who have Black, Native American and European ancestors--were classified as mulatto in the early 19th century, but after the Civil War "the social significance of being mulatto was taken away," and the kinship group began to be classified as Black, McClain said...
...commitment to basketball has not brought Harvard its first Ivy League championship, but it has allowed Roby the tools to consistently attract prized student-athletes. James and Dana and Ian Smith matriculated at Harvard last year, Mitchell this year and five top recruits-- including First Team All-Massachusetts Matt McClain--will enroll in Harvard next fall...