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 White Girl Grosset & Dunlap 1929 305 pages Vera Caspary An African-American woman who moves north to Chicago where she passes as white. Read the entire book here.
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Does Anybody Else Look Like Me?: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Multiracial Children Da Capo Press 2003 224 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780756793401 Paperback ISBN: 9780738209500 Donna Jackson Nakazawa “Am I black or white or am I American?” “Why don’t my eyes look like yours?” “Why do people always call attention to my ‘different’ hair?” Helping…
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The Prism of Race: W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and the Colored World of Cedric Dover Palgrave Macmillan December 2014 268 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781137484093 Ebook (PDF) ISBN: 9781137484116 Ebook (EPUB) ISBN: 9781137484109 Nico Slate, Associate Professor of History Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Born a Eurasian ‘half-caste‘ in Calcutta in 1904, Cedric…
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Death, desire, and divination are the threads running through Jónína Kirton’s debut collection of poems and lyric prose. Delicate and dark, the pieces are like whispers in the night – a haunted, quiet telling of truths the mind has locked away but the body remembers. Loosely autobiographical, these are the weavings of a wagon-goddess who…
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Scree: The Collected Earlier Poems, 1962–1991 Talonbooks 2015 640 pages 6 W x 9 H inches Hardcover ISBN 13: 9780889229471; ISBN 10: 0889229473 Fred Wah Edited and Introduction by: Jeff Derksen, Associate Professor of English Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Fred Wah’s career has spanned six decades and a range of formal styles…
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Set in the suburbs and cities of the Midwest, Mid-South, and Texas, these stories explore the lives of characters biracial, black, white, and all sorts of in-between. The intersections and collisions of contemporary life are in full effect here, where the distinctions between fast food and fine art, noble and naked ambitions, reality and reality…
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Poitier Revisited: Reconsidering a Black Icon in the Obama Age Bloomsbury Publishing 2015-01-15 288 pages 25 bw illus 229 x 152 mm Hardback ISBN: 9781623564919 Edited by: Ian Gregory Strachan, Associate Professor of English College of The Bahamas Mia Mask, Associate Professor of Film Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Sidney Poitier remains one of the…
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The Spirit of London Matador (an imprint of Troubador) 2015-09-28 198×127 mm Paperback ISBN: 9781784624057 Rob Keeley The spirits were at work here, somehow. But why? On returning to London, Ellie investigates the mystery surrounding 47 Foster Square. Who is the sender of ghostly messages asking her for help? What is the secret of the…