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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This wildly imaginative and culturally resonant tale by Daniel Picouly audaciously places black and mixed-race characters–including King Mac, creator of the first hamburger, who hands out figures of Voltaire and Rousseau with his happy meals, and the megalomaniac Black Delorme, creator of a slavery theme park–at the forefront of its Revolution-era story.
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A brother chosen. A brother left behind. And a family where you’d least expect to find one.
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The Daughter of Union County Lake Union Publishing August 2016 432 pages 5.5 x 1 x 8.2 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-1503937321 Francine Thomas Howard Fourteen years after the end of slavery, Lord Henry Hardin and his wife, Lady Bertha, enjoy an entitled life in Union County, Arkansas. Until he faces a devastating reality: Bertha is…
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A brilliant Jamaican-American writer takes on the themes of colonialism, race, myth, and political awakening through the experiences of a light-skinned woman named Clare Savage. The story is one of discovery as Clare moves through a variety of settings – Jamaica, England, America – and encounters people who affect her search for place and self.
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For You Were Strangers: A Hanley & Rivka Mystery Allium Press of Chicago 2015 320 pages 6″ x 9″ Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-0-9890535-9-4 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-9967558-0-1 D. M. Pirrone [Diane Piron-Gelman] Chicago, Illinois On a spring morning in 1872, former Civil War officer Ben Champion is discovered dead in his Chicago bedroom—a bayonet protruding from…
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“Passing” meets “The House of Mirth: in this “utterly captivating” (Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of “The Kitchen House”) historical novel based on the true story of Anita Hemmings, the first black student to attend Vassar, who successfully passed as white—until she let herself grow too attached to the wrong person.
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Anna In-Between Akashic Books 2010-08-17 352 pages Paperback IBSN: 9781936070695 Hardcover IBSN: 9781933354842 Elizabeth Nunez, Distinguished Professor of English Hunter College, the City University of New York Anna In-Between is Elizabeth Nunez’s finest achievement to date. In spare prose, with laserlike attention to every word and the juxtaposition of words to each other, Nunez returns…
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In Due Season Wilfrid Laurier University Press May 2016 375 pages ISBN13: 978-1-77112-071-5 Christine van der Mark (1917–1970) Afterword by: Carole Gerson, Professor of English Department Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada Janice Dowson, Lecturer in English literature and Academic Writing Simon Fraser University and University of the Fraser Valley First published in 1947, In…
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Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins Broadview Press 2016-05-04 (Originally Published in 1894) 304 pages 5½” x 8½” Paperback ISBN: 9781554812660 Mark Twain Edited by: Hsuan L. Hsu, Associate Professor of English University of California, Davis The two narratives published together in The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins are…