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 Book Keeper: A Memoir of Race, Love, and Legacy Swallow Press (an imprint of Ohio University Press) January 2020 256 pages 5½ × 8½ in. Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8040-1221-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8040-4106-5 Julia McKenzie Munemo In a memoir that’s equal parts love story, investigation, and racial reckoning, Munemo unravels and interrogates her whiteness, a shocking…
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The essays in this collection contend with the multitude of ways that racial mixedness has been presented in superhero comics, films, television, and literature.
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Mestizo Modernity: Race, Technology, and the Body in the Postrevolutionary Mexico University Press of Florida 2018-08-28 250 pages 6×9 Hardcover ISBN 13: 9781683400394 Paper ISBN 13: 9781683403104 David S. Dalton, Assistant Professor of Spanish University of North Carolina, Charlotte After the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1917, postrevolutionary leaders hoped to assimilate the country’s…
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This interdisciplinary investigation argues that since the 1990s, discourses about mixed-race heritage in the United States have taken the shape of a veritable literary genre, here termed “memoir of the search.”
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A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery University of North Carolina Press September 2011 (originally published in 1840) 50 pages 6 x 9, 4 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-6965-9 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8078-6966-6 Moses Roper (c1815-1891) The Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper can be read as…
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From the bestselling and Booker Prize-winning author of “Girl, Woman,” Other, Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir of her own life and writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and activism