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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The Pain Tree Cormorant Books June 2015 320 pages 5.5″ x 8.5″ Paperback ISBN 9781770864344 Olive Senior Olive Senior’s new collection of stories, The Pain Tree, is wide-ranging in scope, time period, theme, locale, and voice. There is — along with her characteristic “gossipy voice” — reverence, wit and wisdom, satire, humour, and even farce.…
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The White Girl Grosset & Dunlap 1929 305 pages Vera Caspary An African-American woman who moves north to Chicago where she passes as white. Read the entire book here.
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Set in the suburbs and cities of the Midwest, Mid-South, and Texas, these stories explore the lives of characters biracial, black, white, and all sorts of in-between. The intersections and collisions of contemporary life are in full effect here, where the distinctions between fast food and fine art, noble and naked ambitions, reality and reality…
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The Spirit of London Matador (an imprint of Troubador) 2015-09-28 198×127 mm Paperback ISBN: 9781784624057 Rob Keeley The spirits were at work here, somehow. But why? On returning to London, Ellie investigates the mystery surrounding 47 Foster Square. Who is the sender of ghostly messages asking her for help? What is the secret of the…
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Long Time No See: A memoir of fathers, daughters and games of chance Periscope 2015-07-24 336 pages 204mm x 138mm Paperback ISBN: 9781859643969 Hannah Lowe Hannah Lowe’s father “Chick”, a half-Chinese, half-black Jamaican immigrant, worked long hours at night to support his family – except Chick was no ordinary working man. A legendary gambler, he…
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Born in Boston to a Cuban father and an Irish-American mother, Antonio Sacre is one of the few leprecanos on the national speaking circuit.
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A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City
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Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015-03-31 48 pages Hardcover ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780544102293 eBook ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780544102286 Margarita Engle Rafael López In this picture book bursting with vibrance and rhythm, a girl dreams of playing the drums in 1930s Cuba, when the music-filled island had a taboo against female…
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Mislaid: A Novel Ecco/HarperCollins 2015-05-19 256 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780062364777 Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780062364784 E-book ISBN: 9780062364791 Trimsize: 6 in (w) x 9 in (h) x 0.89 in (d) Nell Zink A sharply observed, mordantly funny, and startlingly original novel from an exciting, unconventional new voice—the author of the acclaimed The Wallcreeper—about the making and…