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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Pets, Playmates, Pedagogues (From Chapter Four of Oreo) The Offing: A Los Angeles Review of Books Channel 2015-07-06 Fran Ross Oreo, Fran Ross’s ground-breaking satire, was originally published in 1974. It is being re-issued this week by New Directions, with an introduction by Danzy Senna and a foreword by Harryette Mullen. Mat Johnson of NPR…
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For once it’s not just black and white. In this compelling chronicle of his journey through life as a multicultural and multiethnic American, Teja Arboleda uniquely and personally challenges institutionalized notions of race, culture, ethnicity, and class.
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A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City
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Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015-03-31 48 pages Hardcover ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780544102293 eBook ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780544102286 Margarita Engle Rafael López In this picture book bursting with vibrance and rhythm, a girl dreams of playing the drums in 1930s Cuba, when the music-filled island had a taboo against female…
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The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race Johns Hopkins Univesity Press August 2012 240 pages 1 halftone, 1 line drawing Hardback ISBN: 9781421407005 Rebecca Anne Goetz, Associate Professor of History New York University In The Baptism of Early Virginia, Rebecca Anne Goetz examines the construction of race through the religious beliefs and practices…
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The Story of a White Woman Who Turned Herself Black and Went to Live and Work in Harlem and Mississippi Delta.
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Mislaid: A Novel Ecco/HarperCollins 2015-05-19 256 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780062364777 Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780062364784 E-book ISBN: 9780062364791 Trimsize: 6 in (w) x 9 in (h) x 0.89 in (d) Nell Zink A sharply observed, mordantly funny, and startlingly original novel from an exciting, unconventional new voice—the author of the acclaimed The Wallcreeper—about the making and…
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The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter’s Quest HarperCollins 2002 416 pages Hardcover ISBN: 0002570653 Paperback ISBN: 0006531261 Aminatta Forna An evening in 1974 when she was ten years old, Aminatta Forna opened the door to two men, members of the state secret police, come to take her father. A year later he…