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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‘Fühlst du dich als Deutsche oder als Afrikanerin?’: May Ayim’s Search for an Afro-German Identity in her Poetry and Essays German Life and Letters Volume 59 Issue 4 (October 2006) Pages 500-514 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0483.2006.00364.x Jennifer Michaels, Professor of German; Samuel R. and Marie-Louise Rosenthal Professor of Humanities Grinnell College, Iowa Until her suicide in 1996, May…
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These essays consider a wide range of texts and moments from colonial times to the present that raise significant questions about the political motivations inherent in the origins and maintenance of identity categories and boundaries.
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Distancing the Proximate Other: Hybridity and Maud Diver’s Candles in the Wind Twentieth Century Literature Volume 50, Number 2 (Summer, 2004) pages 107-140 Loretta M. Mijares The half-caste out here falls between two stools, that’s the truth. —Maud Diver, Candles in the Wind Miscegenation has long been recognized as one of the recurrent tropes of…
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Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule Ohio State University Press May 2010 161 pages 6×9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8142-1126-7 CD ISBN: 978-0-8142-9224-2 Shuchi Kapila, Associate Professor of English Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa Even though Edward Said’s Orientalism inspired several generations of scholars to study the English novel’s close involvement with…
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Jackie Kay – Red Dust Road Launch Night Glasgow Women’s Library 81 Parnie Street, Glasgow, Scotland Wednesday 2010-06-23, 19:00 BST Red Dust Road Exclusive Launch Jackie Kay is known and loved for her fiction – a novel, and short stories -, for her poetry and her plays. In this revelatory and redemptive book, with characteristic…
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Borders Book Festival: Where Words Come Alive—Jackie Kay Harmony Marquee Melrose, Scotland 2010-06-20, 20:30 BST (Local Time) Published only days before the festival, Red Dust Road is Jackie Kay’s autobiographical journey. Adopted by warm-spirited Scottish communists, Jackie has never thought of anyone else as her ‘real’ parents, but meeting her birth father and mother was…
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‘What makes us who we are? My adoption is a story that has happened to me. I couldn’t make it up.’