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: Novels
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From acclaimed author Patricia Hruby Powell comes the story of a landmark civil rights case, told in spare and gorgeous verse. In 1955, in Caroline County, Virginia, amidst segregation and prejudice, injustice and cruelty, two teenagers fell in love. Their life together broke the law, but their determination would change it. Richard and Mildred Loving…
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Weaving together poetry and prose, Spanish and English, family history and political theory, “Loving in the War Years” has been a classic in the feminist and Chicano canon since its 1983 release. This new edition—including a new introduction and three new essays—remains a testament of Moraga’s coming-of-age as a Chicana and a lesbian at a…
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Know It by Heart Northwestern University Press June 2003 256 pages 5.5 x 8.5 Trade Paper ISBN: 978-1-880684-95-5 Karl Luntta, Director of Media Relations The State University of New York, Albany When a racially mixed family moves into an all-white neighborhood in East Hartford, Connecticut, in 1961, lives are altered forever. Karl Luntta’s Know It by…
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Re Jane: A Novel Pamela Dorman Books (an imprint of Penguin Random House) 2015-05-05 352 Pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0525427407 Paperback ISBN: 978-0143107941 Patricia Park For Jane Re, half-Korean, half-American orphan, Flushing, Queens, is the place she’s been trying to escape from her whole life. Sardonic yet vulnerable, Jane toils, unappreciated, in her strict uncle’s…
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Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Ecco (an imprint of HarperCollins) 2016-12-06 192 pages 5.313 in (w) x 8 in (h) x 0.432 in (d) Paperback ISBN: 9780062484154 E-book ISBN: 9780062484161 Kathleen Collins (1942-1988) Foreword by: Elizabeth Alexander Named one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of the Year, and named one of the most anticipated books of…
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Venous Hum Arsenal Pulp Press 2004 232 page Paperback ISBN: 9781551521701 Suzette Mayr High school reunions can be hell. But when you throw in racial and sexual tensions, extramarital affairs, and cannibalistic, undead vegetarians, it’s hell times infinity. Brash, clever, and monstrously funny, Venous Hum charts the lives of Lai Fun Kugelheim and Stefanja Dumanowski,…
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Swing Time Penguin Press 2016-11-15 464 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1594203985 Paperback ISBN: 978-1524723194 Zadie Smith Two brown girls dream of being dancers—but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It’s a close but…
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Family secrets ripple through time when three present-day sisters discover the truth about a young African-American woman passing for white sixty years before. What happens in between is a frank and funny look at the shifting boundaries of tolerance and what identity really means.
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The Sympathizer Grove Press April 2015 384 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0802123459 Paperback ISBN: 978-0802124944 Viet Thanh Nguyen Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Winner of the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2016 Edgar Award for Best First Novel…
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An important addition to the literature of the period, Gentleman Jigger is the story of two brothers. Aeon, who passes for white and becomes a famous poet, faces the conundrums of love across the color line. Stuartt, who is openly homosexual-as was the author-joins the younger intellectuals of Harlem in defying authority figures, both black…