Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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: Biography
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James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother’s past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut.
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Don’t tell me who I am The Guardian 2002-01-12 Libby Brooks, Deputy Comment Editor Jackie Kay has become used to all kinds of assumptions being made about her identity—literary, national, sexual and familial. The more annoying, because the joy of being a writer is that you can create any persona you like. On the other…
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Uma Mulata, Sim!: Araci Cortes, ‘the mulatta’ of the Teatro de Revista Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory Volume 16, Issue 1 (March 2006) pages 7-26 DOI: 10.1080/07407700500514996 Judith Michelle Williams, Professor of African and African-American Studies University of Kansas Araci Cortes, a mulata assumida, rose to be one of the most successful…
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A Knock Out: A film by Tessa Boerman and Samuel Reiziger Women Make Movies Netherlands, 2004 53 minutes Color, VHS/DVD Subtitled Order No. W05882 Boxing champion Michele Aboro grew up in South London, where life for a girl was never easy, let alone for a mixed-race lesbian girl. Thanks to her tenacious spirit and an…
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The remarkable saga of a mixed-race family in nineteenth-century America