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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Emilio Fernández: Pictures in the Margins Manchester University Press October 2007 192 pages 216 x 138 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7190-7432-5 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7190-8844-5 Dolores Tierney, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom Emilio Fernández: Pictures in the Margins is the first book-length English language account of Emilio Fernández (1904-1986) the most…
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Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature: Coloring Outside the (Black and White) Lines Palgrave Macmillan November 2013 208 pages 3 illustrations 5.500 x 8.500 inches Hardback ISBN: 978-1-137-36492-0, ISBN10: 1-137-36492-0 Diana Adesola Mafe, Assistant Professor of English Denison University, Granville, Ohio America’s new millennial interest in multiraciality coincides with South Africa’s post-apartheid…
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From the time of its first appearance, the story of Pocahontas has provided the terms of a flexible discourse that has been put to multiple, and at times contradictory, uses. Centering around her legendary rescue of John Smith from the brink of execution and her subsequent marriage to a white Jamestown colonist, the Pocahontas convention…
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In this 20th anniversary edition of the landmark “Black, White, Other,” journalist Lise Funderburg explores the lives of adult children of black/white unions. Her subjects’ unflinching honesty, whipsmart humor, and deep feeling result in a stunning — and enduring — portrait of race in America. New foreword by novelist Mat Johnson and links to updated…
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According to Our Hearts: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family Yale University Press 2013-06-18 344 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 30 b/w illus. Cloth ISBN: 9780300166828 Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Professor of Law University of Iowa This landmark book looks at what it means to be…
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Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: Race, Nation and Beauty Competitions, 1929–70 Manchester University Press October 2013 192 pages 216 x 138 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7190-8867-4 Rochelle Rowe University of Exeter Over fifty years after Jamaican and Trinidadian independence, Imagining Caribbean Womanhood examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean, providing a first cultural history…
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Passing: When People Can’t Be Who They Are PublicAffiars an imprint of Perseus Books Group 2004-11-30 288 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-58648-287-9 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Brooke Kroeger, Professor of Journalism New York University Through the provocative stories of six contemporary “passers,” and examples from history and literature, a renowned journalist illuminates passing as a…
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Jesus for Revolutionaries: An Introduction to Race, Social Justice, and Christianity Robert Chao Romero 2013-10-07 262 pages 5.83 wide x 8.26 tall Paperback ISBN: 9781304513984 eBook ISBN: 9781304531063 Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Are you a “revolutionary”? Are you curious about exploring issues…
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My Basmati Bat Mitzvah Amulet Books 2013-10-01 256 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 1-4197-0806-6 Paula J. Freedman During the fall leading up to her bat mitzvah, Tara (Hindi for “star”) Feinstein has a lot more than her Torah portion on her mind. Between Hebrew school and study sessions with the rabbi, there…