Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Category: Books
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Wanting to understand how her path is tied to her mother tongue, Anne, a young, multiracial American woman, travels through China, the country of her mother’s birth. Along the way, she tries on different roles—seeker, teacher, student, girlfriend, artist, and daughter—and continually asks herself: Why do I feel called to make this journey?
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Descent Tarpaulin Sky Press 2020-06-02 120 pages 6 x 0.4 x 9 inches Paperback ISBN: 9781939460219 Lauren Russell In 2013, poet Lauren Russell acquired a copy of the diary of her great-great-grandfather, Robert Wallace Hubert, a Captain in the Confederate Army. After his return from the Civil War, he fathered twenty children by three of…
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A searing, sensual novel with photographs, A Long Curving Scar Where the Heart Should Be weaves together southern fabulism and gothic fury, pulling at the restless, volatile threads of seditious American iconoclasts Zora Neale Hurston, Patti Smith, Cormac McCarthy, and Toni Morrison.
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Debut novelist Alice Stephens combines dark humor and a keen wit to examine the profound implications of not knowing where you come from; and how our perceptions of an unknown world reflect deeper truths about our own.
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This book uses a black/white interracial lens to examine the lives and careers of eight prominent American-born actresses from the silent age through the studio era, New Hollywood, and into the present century: Josephine Baker, Nina Mae McKinney, Fredi Washington, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Lonette McKee, Jennifer Beals and Halle Berry.
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In the Netherlands, a small group of biracial citizens has entered its eighth decade of lives that have been often puzzling and difficult, but which offer a unique insight into the history of race relations in America.
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Island Queen, A Novel William Morrow (an imprint of HarperCollins) 2021-07-06 592 pages 6x9in Hardcover ISBN: 9780063002845 Paperback ISBN: 9780063002852 E-book ISBN: 9780063002869 Digital Audio, MP3 ISBN: 9780063002876 Vanessa Riley A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free woman of color who rose from slavery…
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The stories in “Personal Attention Roleplay” are propelled by queer loneliness, mixed-race confusion, late capitalist despondency, and the pitfalls of intimacy.
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The Ruin of Everything Paloma Press 2021-10-19 126 pages 5.98 X 9.02 X 0.3 inches 0.43 pounds Paperback ISBN: 978-1734496550 Lara Stapleton The Ruin of Everything tells tales of abandoned children living in adult bodies. Bastards, bi-racial half-siblings, and orphans raised by aunts, they lose their last best love through brokenness like “the impossible loop…
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My Monticello, Fiction Henry Holt & Company (an imprint of Macmillan) 2021-10-05 240 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781250807151 e-Book ISBN: 9781250807168 Audiobook ISBN: 9781250820723 Compact Disk ISBN: 9781250820716 Jocelyn Nicole Johnson A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor studying racism by conducting…