Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Tag: Tim Brannigan
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Tim Brannigan, a real black Irish republican The Irish Times Dublin, Ireland 2016-05-28 Fionola Meredith When Tim Brannigan was born his mother persuaded a doctor to declare him a stillbirth. Then she gave him to an orphanage – coming back a year later to ‘adopt’ the son she couldn’t admit she’d had. After that he…
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Where Are You Really From? Culture Northern Ireland 2010-04-10 Joanne Savage Race, republicanism and a mothers love in Tim Brannigan’s memoir Peggy Brannigan met Michael Ekue at a dance in Belfast in 1965. She was from Beechmount; he was a medic from Ghana. Their eyes met, they danced and sparks flew. She was gorgeous and…
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Where Are You Really From? Kola Kubes and Gelignite, Secrets and Lies – The True Story of an Extraordinary Family Blackstaff Press 2010-12-06 208 pages 5.4 x 0.5 x 8.4 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-0856408533 Tim Brannigan Tim Brannigan was born in Belfast in 1966, and spent the first year of his life in St Joseph’s…