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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Desdemona’s Fire Lotus Press/Wayne State University Press 1999 61 pages 5.5 x 8.5 Paper ISBN: 9780916418830 Ruth Ellen Kocher, Associate Professor of English University of Colorado, Boulder This is the author’s first book and winner of the 1999 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. While miscegenation has always been more a part of American history than…
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Joe Christmas and the Chamber of Secrets – The Black/ White Dilemma in William Faulkner’s Light in August Africa Resource 2010-04-04 21 paragraphs Isabel Adonis, Writer and Artist I read William Faulkner’s Light in August in my early teens and I scarcely understood it. But I understood something and many years later a woman at…
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Black Welsh Identity: the unspeakable speaks. British Broadcasting Corporation North West Wales 2006-05-30 Isabel Adonis, Writer and Artist Isabel Adonis was born in London and brought up in Llandudno, the Sudan and Nigeria. She spent 21 years in Bethesda before returning to Llandudno. She helped found Timbuktu, a new international arts and literary journal. This…
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Stories and survival’: An Interview with Jackie Kay Wasafiri Volume 25, Issue 4, 2010 pages 19-22 DOI: 10.1080/02690055.2010.510366 Maggie Gee Jackie Kay has had a glittering career as a writer of poetry, fiction and drama for both adults and children. She was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian…
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The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics MIT Press January 2009 368 pages 7 x 9, 35 illus. Paper ISBN-10: 0-262-58275-9; ISBN-13: 978-0-262-58275-9 Evelynn M. Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies (and Dean of Harvard College)…
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Nationality demands solidarity. And you can never get solidarity in a nation of equal rights out of two hostile races that do not intermarry. In a Democracy you can not build a nation inside of a nation of two antagonistic races, and therefore the future American must be either an Anglo Saxon or a Mulatto.…
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In my first marriage I paid my compliments to my mother’s race; in my second marriage I paid my compliments to the race of my father. Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
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…being mulatto is longing for oneself [o mulato é saudade de si mesmo] just like the despised hermaphrodite outcries the conflict between the sexes… the mestiço is thus an unexpected being in the plan of the world, an unfortunate experiment of the Portuguese. Mendes Correia, 1940: 122