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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Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919–1991 Duke University Press 2000 424 pages 21 b&w photographs, 2 maps, 1 table Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2385-3 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2420-1 Marisol de la Cadena, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of California, Davis In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, unlike their European counterparts, rejected…
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What Are You? Voices of Mixed-Race Young People Henry Holt and Company and imprint of MacMillan June 1999 288 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8050-5968-7, ISBN10: 0-8050-5968-7 Pearl Fuyo Gaskins Awards: American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults; IRA Notable Books for a Global Society; Books for the Teen Age,…
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When you come from a mixed race background as Paisley Rekdal does — her mother is Chinese American and her father is Norwegian– thorny issues of identity politics, and interracial desire are never far from the surface.
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Manuel Zapata Olivella and the “Darkening” of Latin American Literature University of Missouri Press 2005 168 pages 6 x 9 index, bibliography ISBN 978-0-8262-1578-9 Antonio D. Tillis, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies Dartmouth University Manuel Zapata Olivella and the “Darkening” of Latin American Literature is an examination of the fictional work of…
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Damn Near White: An African American Family’s Rise from Slavery to Bittersweet Success University of Missouri Press October 2010 192 pages 15 illustrations, bibliography index ISBN-10: 0826218997 ISBN-13: 978-0826218995 Carolyn Marie Wilkins, Professor Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts Carolyn Wilkins grew up defending her racial identity. Because of her light complexion and wavy hair,…
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Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance University of Michigan Press 2006 256 pages 6 x 9. 29 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-472-09955-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-472-06955-2 Alicia Arrizón, Professor of Women’s Studies University of California, Riverside Winner of the Outstanding Book Award for 2008 from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Co-winner of the 2007 Modern…