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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A Lot Like You: A Film by Eliaichi Kimaro USA/Tanzania 2012 55 minutes/82 minutes Eliachi Kimaro, Director (2012) WINNER, Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary: 35th Annual Asian American International Film Festival (New York) (2012) WINNER, Best Documentary: Female Eye Film Festival (Toronto) (2012) WINNER, Jury Prize for Best Documentary: 30th Annual San Francisco International…
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‘Searching for Zion’: Emily Raboteau’s Hunt for the Promised Land The Daily Beast 2013-01-13 Mindy Farabee A writer set out around the world to find the mythical ‘promised land’ of the African diaspora. Emily Raboteau speaks about the Jewish search for the same, African-American tourism to Ghana, and Barack Obama’s ties to this search. Mention…
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In ‘Red Pyramid,’ Kid Heroes Take On Ancient Egypt Backseat Bookclub All Things Considered National Public Radio 2012-12-19 Melissa Block, Host Robert Siegel, Senior Host If there was a recipe for the best-selling writer Rick Riordan, it would go something like this — start with a love of storytelling, fold in more than a decade…
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Under the Skin Finch Publishing August 2012 210 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781921462801 Marion van Dyk This beautifully written and evocative memoir is a fascinating insight into the lives of her family, living under apartheid, who struggled to create a sense of identity and personal worth. It’s a book of historical relevance in its revelations about…
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Donas, Signares, and Free Women of Color: African and Eurafrican Women of the Atlantic World in an Age of Racial Slavery 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 153 Saturday, 2013-01-05: 09:00-11:00 CST (Local Time) Chamber Ballroom II (Roosevelt New Orleans) Chair: Hilary Jones, University of…
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Germans Loving Others: Narrating Interracial Romance in Kenya, North America, and Guatemala 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 70: Central European History Society 3 Friday, 2013-01-04: 08:30-10:00 CST (Local Time) Chamber Ballroom II (Roosevelt New Orleans) Chair: Andrew Zimmerman, George Washington University Papers: “Seeking Winnetou:…
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Zakes Mda: The Madonna of Excelsior Muthal Naidoo: Published Books, Plays, Poems and Articles 2011-11-01 Muthal Naidoo (2002. Cape Town. Oxford University Press) The Immorality Act of 1927, which prohibited sex between Blacks and Whites, was amended in 1950 to prohibit sex between Whites and all non-Whites. Zakes Mda bases his novel, The Madonna…
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The Madonna of Excelsior: A Novel Picador (an imprint of Macmillan) March 2005 288 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780312423827; ISBN10: 0312423829 Zakes Mda, Professor of Creative Writing Ohio University In 1971, nineteen citizens of Excelsior in South Africa’s white-ruled Free State were charged with breaking apartheid’s Immorality Act, which forbade…