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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Category: Books
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The conceptual, language-driven short stories in “Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments” are an exploration of not just mixed-race/hapa identity in Michigan (and the American Midwest), but also of the infinite ways in which stories can be told, challenged, celebrated, and subverted.
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One of the UK’s brightest and best comedians takes an incisive look at race and belonging.
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In his remarkable and moving memoir, Majors gathers the shards of a broken past to piece together a portrait of a man on an extraordinary journey toward Blackness, queerness, and parenthood.
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Professor of English University of Oklahoma, Norman The 2020 National Book Award–nominated poet makes her fiction debut with this magisterial epic—an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing; Sing, Unburied, Sing; and The Water Dancer—that chronicles the journey of one American family, from the centuries of the…
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Essays investigate Beyoncé’s global impact
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Lives Like Mine Simon & Schuster 2021-06-10 384 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781398502826 Paperback ISBN: 9781398502857 eBook ISBN: 9781398502840 Eva Verde Mother. To three small children, their heritage dual like hers. Daughter. To a mother who immigrated to make a better life but has been rejected by her chosen country. Wife. To a man who loves…
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A young woman pays a devastating price for freedom in this heartrending and breathtaking novel of the nineteenth-century South.
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The objective of this volume is twofold: it aims at shedding light on the way texts or films show the work of individual memory and collective recollection as they grapple with a racially divided past, struggling with its legacy or playing with its stereotypes. Our second objective has been to explore the great variety in…