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: Biography
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New Laureate Wrestles with Mixed Race Better Living through Beowulf: How great literature can change your life 2012-06-11 Robin Bates, Professor of English St. Mary’s College of Maryland Monday I see that Natasha Trethewey, who teaches creative writing at my graduate alma mater (Emory University), is America’s new poet laureate. Trethewey is mixed race…
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A struggle to transcend race and find justice
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Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer Harvard University Press April 2012 352 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches; 20 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780674046870 Kenneth W. Mack, Professor of Law Harvard University ” Representing the Race tells the story of an enduring paradox of American race relations, through the prism of a collective…
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Framing a Deterritorialized, Hybrid Alternative to Nationalist Essentialism in the Postcolonial Era: Tjalie Robinson and the Diasporic Eurasian “Indo” Community Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies Volume 16, Numbers 1/2, (Spring/Fall 2007) pages 1-28 DOI: 10.1353/dsp.2007.0002 Jeroen Dewulf, Queen Beatrix Professor in Dutch Studies University of California, Berkeley In her study of Transnational South Asians…
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Bessora: A Writer with a Thirty-Eight Shoe Size Wasafiri Volume 24, Issue 2 (2009) pages 60-65 DOI: 10.1080/02690050902771779 Adele King The character of literary criticism combined with pedagogical strategies tends to categorise, moving one accepted orthodoxy forward by pushing another out of the way. Early approaches to European literature were to treat it as a…
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The blonde, blue-eyed black man who one goal—racial justice The News-Times Danbury, Connecticut 2010-02-24 Antoinette Bosco Barack Obama has already made history in our nation, becoming the first black candidate ever to be elected to the U.S. presidency. But, in truth, he is following a path that has long been set by black people before…
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Rodney King juror: ‘My father was black’ Ventura County Star Camarillo, California 2012-04-28 Gretchen Wenner, Staff Reporter SQUAW VALLEY — Juror No. 8 from the Rodney King beating trial has always heard the 12-member panel described as either all white or as having no blacks. Now, he wants the public to know that’s not…