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 Love Wife: A Novel Vintage Books 2005-10-11 400 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4000-7651-2 Gish Jen From the massively talented Gish Jen comes a barbed, moving, and stylistically dazzling new novel about the elusive nature of kinship. The Wongs describe themselves as a “half half” family, but the actual fractions are more complicated, given Carnegie’s Chinese…
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I Am Radar: A Novel Penguin Press 2015-02-24 672 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781594206160 Reif Larsen The moment just before Radar Radmanovic is born, all of the hospital’s electricity mysteriously fails. The delivery takes place in total darkness. Lights back on, the staff sees a healthy baby boy—with pitch-black skin—born to the stunned white parents. No…
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Now, Tiya Miles’s luminous but highly accessible novel examines a little-known aspect of America’s past—slaveholding by Southern Creeks and Cherokees—and its legacy in the lives of three young women who are drawn to the Georgia plantation where scenes of extreme cruelty and equally extraordinary compassion once played out.
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Oxherding Tale: A Novel Scribner (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) 1982 208 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780743264495 eBook ISBN: 9780743277419 Charles Johnson, Pollock Professor of English University of Washington, Seattle One night in the antebellum South, a slave owner and his African-American butler stay up to all hours until, too drunk to face their wives,…
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The Colonel’s Dream West Virginia University Press October 2014 (originally published in 1905) 352 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-935978-91-6 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-940425-23-8 ePub ISBN: 978-1-935978-93-0 PDF ISBN: 978-1-935978-92-3 Charles W. Chesnutt Edited by: R. J. Ellis, Professor of American Studies University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an African American writer, essayist, Civil…
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Clotel or, The President’s Daughter Penguin Press 2003-12-30 (First published in December 1853) 320 Pages Paperback ISBN: 9780142437728 ePub ISBN: 9781440626616 William Wells Brown (1814–1884) Introduction by: M. Giulia Fabi, Associate professor of American literature University of Ferrara, Italy First published in December 1853, Clotel was written amid then unconfirmed rumors that Thomas Jefferson had…
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William Wells Brown: A Reader University of Georgia Press 2008-12-15 488 pages 6 b&w photos Trim size: 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-3223-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-3224-6 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-3634-3 William Wells Brown (1814–1884) Edited by: Ezra Greenspan, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of English Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas Born into slavery in…
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Pudd’nhead Wilson Harvard University Press February 2015 (Originally Published in 1894) 190 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches 7 line illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9780674059832 Mark Twain (1835-1910) Introduction by: Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University When a murder takes place…
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Your Face in Mine, A Novel Riverhead Books (an imprint of Penguin Press) 2014-08-14 384 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781594488344 ePub ISBN: 9780698168817 Jess Row An award-winning writer delivers a poignant and provocative novel of identity, race and the search for belonging in the age of globalization. One afternoon, not long after Kelly Thorndike has moved…