Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Category: Books
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The extraordinary struggle, achievement, loss, and reclamation of three brilliant African American artists of the 1800s
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In the tradition of “The Glass Castle,” a deeply felt memoir from Whiting Award–winner Nadia Owusu about the push and pull of belonging, the seismic emotional toll of family secrets, and the heart it takes to pull through.
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In “Selected Writings on Race and Difference,” editors Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore gather more than twenty essays by Stuart Hall that highlight his extensive and groundbreaking engagement with race, representation, identity, difference, and diaspora.
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From the indie rockstar of “Japanese Breakfast” fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity.
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Based on events portrayed in Parker’s autobiography, “An Upstream Battle” illustrates the real danger that Parker and other members of the Underground Railroad were exposed to, and their commitment to helping runaway slaves, despite that danger.
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“Septuagenarian: love is what happens when I die” is a memoir in poetic form. It is the author’s journey from being a mixed-race girl who passed for white to being a woman in her seventies who understands and accepts her complex intersectional identity; and no longer has to imagine love.
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“Love Imagined” is an American woman’s unique struggle for identity.