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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Long Time No See: A memoir of fathers, daughters and games of chance Periscope 2015-07-24 336 pages 204mm x 138mm Paperback ISBN: 9781859643969 Hannah Lowe Hannah Lowe’s father “Chick”, a half-Chinese, half-black Jamaican immigrant, worked long hours at night to support his family – except Chick was no ordinary working man. A legendary gambler, he…
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On Being Biracial and Affirmative Action: Where Do I Fit in? Skirt Collective 2015-07-23 Shannon Luders-Manuel Los Angeles, California Abigail Fisher, a white student who was denied entrance to the University of Austin, Texas [University of Texas, Austin], is taking her case to the Supreme Court, calling the decision a clear result of affirmative action.…
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How to Unlearn History | Ella Achola | TEDxCoventGardenWomen TEDx Talks 2015-07-21 Ella Achola, Founder Ain’t I A Woman Collective From awkward school encounters to groan-inducingly offensive questions, Ella finds herself at the intersections of identity, and shares her big idea for bringing ourselves into the stories we tell. Ella Achola is a writer and…
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The Adoption Papers Bloodaxe Books 1991 64 pages 21.6 x 13.9 x 0.5 cm Paperback ISBN: 978-1852241568 Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing Newcastle University
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The “Telling Part”: Reimagining Racial Recognition in Jackie Kay’s Adoptee Search Narratives Contemporary Women’s Writing Volume 9, Issue 2 (July 2015) pages 277-296 DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpu041 Pamela Fox, Professor of English Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. This article examines Jackie Kay’s earliest and renowned autobiographical poetic text, The Adoption Papers (1991), in relation to her latest narrative…
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It’s official: Latinos now outnumber whites in California The Los Angeles Times 2015-07-08 Javier Panzar Source: The Los Angeles Times The demographers agreed: At some point in 2014, Latinos would pass whites as the largest ethnic group in California. Determining when exactly that milestone would occur was more of a tricky question. Counting people isn’t…
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Is it ’cause I’m not black? moniquerants: Education Lover. Discoverer of Healthy Eating. Headphone Raver. Opinionated Ranter. 2015-07-06 Monique Bell Years of mistaken identity and assumed whiteness have understandably left me with a miniature chip on my shoulder, and what better way to deal with that chip than writing to the world about it? In…
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Joseph Emidy: From slave fiddler to classical violinist BBC News 2015-06-21 Miles Davis, BBC News Online Joseph Emidy led the Truro Philharmonic Orchestra The remarkable life of a former slave who became a pioneer of classical music has been commemorated. The “genius” violinist Joseph Emidy, from West Africa, was enslaved for two long periods of…
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‘Lightskin Guys Be Like…’ BlogbyBilal: Living in NW London my whole life until I was whisked away by magic pumpkin chariot into Cambridge for the fairy tale years of my life – my ramblings of my tour of the North. 2015-06-18 Bilal Harry Khan “Lightskin boys be so moist” “Those guys are bare in their…