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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Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool Princeton University Press 2005 312 pages 6 x 9 ISBN: 978-1-4008-2641-4 Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hunter College of the City University of New York The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. Its…
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Filled with love and food, this story of the Hawaiian Wong family is an exuberant banquet of characters and stories.
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Crossing the Color Line: Race, Parenting, and Culture Rutgers University Press August 1994 215 pages Cloth ISBN 0-8135-2105-X Paperback ISBN 0-8135-2374-5 Maureen T. Reddy, Professor of English Rhode Island College Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. On Lines and Bridges 2. Starting Out 3. “Why Do White People Have Vaginas?” 4. “One Drop of Black Blood” 5.…
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A Feather on the Breath of God: A Novel Picador 2005 (Originally published in 1995) 192 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780312422738; ISBN10: 0312422733 Sigrid Nunez A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project…
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Divided To The Vein: A Journey into Race and Family Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1996 320 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 0151931070; ISBN-13: 978-0151931071 Scott Minerbrook Scott Minerbrook’s parents hail from opposite ends of the cultural spectrum. His father was a pampered only child born into Chicago’s aspiring black bourgeoisie, while his mother was an idealistic girl from…
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The Dust of Life: America’s Children Abandoned in Vietnam University of Washington Press 1999 160 pages notes, glossary, bibliog., index Paperback ISBN: 9780295978369 Robert S. McKelvey, M.D., Professor Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Oregon Health & Science University The Dust of Life is a collection of vivid and devastating oral histories of Vietnamese Amerasians.…
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Ten Thousand Sorrows Bantam Books 2000 240 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 0553812645; ISBN-13: 978-0553812640 Elizabeth Kim ‘I don’t know how old I was when I watched my mother’s murder, nor do I know how old I am today.’ The illegitimate daughter of a peasant and an American GI, Elizabeth Kim spent her early years as a…