Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Category: Books
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Nadine Ehlers examines the constructions of blackness and whiteness cultivated in the U.S. imaginary and asks, how do individuals become racial subjects?
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Walking in Two Worlds: Mixed-Blood Indian Women Seeking Their Path Caxton Press 2006 264 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 0-87004-450-8 Nancy M. Peterson Nancy M. Peterson tells the stories of mixed-blood women who, steeped in the tradition of their Indian mothers but forced into the world of their white fathers, fought to find their…
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Spit Back a Boy: Poems by Iain Haley Pollock The University of Georgia Press 2011-06-15 72 pages Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 ISBN: 978-0-8203-3908-5 Iain Haley Pollock, English Teacher Springside-Chestnut Hill Academy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Winner of the 2010 The Cave Canem Poetry Prize Iain Haley Pollock’s poems cover the ground from a woman late to…
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Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany HarperCollins 480 pages 2001 ISBN: 9780060959616 Hans J. Massaquoi (1926-2013) This is a story of the unexpected. In Destined to Witness, Hans Massaquoi has crafted a beautifully rendered memoir—an astonishing true tale of how he came of age as a black child in Nazi Germany. The son…
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In Between: Memoir of an Integration Baby Skinner House Books (an imprint of the Unitarian Universalist Association) 2008-10-15 288 pages Product Code: 6989 ISBN-13: 978-1558965416; ISBN-10: 9781558965416 Mark D. Morrison-Reed Frank personal account of growing up black during the era of the civil rights movement. The author wrestles with racism, the death of Martin Luther…
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The Creolizing Subject: Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity Fordham University Press May 2011 256 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780823234509; Hardback ISBN: 9780823234493 Michael J. Monahan, Associate Professor of Philosophy Marquette University How does our understanding of the reality (or lack thereof ) of race as a category of being affect our understanding of racism…
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Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire Oxford University Press May 2011 320 pages Hardback ISBN13: 9780199604159; ISBN10: 0199604150 Damon Ieremia Salesa, Associate Professor of History, American Culture, and Asian/Pacific Islander Studies University of Michigan The Victorians were fascinated with intersections between different races. Whether in sexual or domestic partnerships, in interracial children,…
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You Are Free: Stories Riverhead (and Imprint of Penguin Press) 2011-05-03 240 pages ISBN 9781594485077 Danzy Senna Each of these eight remarkable stories by Danzy Senna tightrope-walks tantalizingly, sometimes frighteningly, between defined states: life with and without mates and children, the familiar if constraining reference points provided by race, class, and gender. Tensions arise between…
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Studies of some sturdy examples of the simple live, toghether with sketches of early colonial history of Cumberland county and Southern New Jersey and some early genealogical records.