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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Hopkins tells the story of Reuel Briggs, a medical student who couldn’t care less about being black and appreciating African history, but finds himself in Ethiopia on an archeological trip. His motive is to raid the country of lost treasures—which he does find in the ancient land. However, he discovers much more than he bargained…
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Integrating both Māori myth and New Zealand reality, The Bone People became the most successful novel in New Zealand publishing history when it appeared in 1984. Set on the South Island beaches of New Zealand, a harsh environment, the novel chronicles the complicated relationships between three emotional outcasts of mixed European and Māori heritage.
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Filled with love and food, this story of the Hawaiian Wong family is an exuberant banquet of characters and stories.
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A Feather on the Breath of God: A Novel Picador 2005 (Originally published in 1995) 192 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780312422738; ISBN10: 0312422733 Sigrid Nunez A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project…
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Me: A Book of Remembrance University Press of Mississippi 1997 (Originally published in 1915) 368 pages Cloth ISBN: 0878059911 (9780878059911) Paper ISBN: 087805992X (9780878059928) Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954) Afterword by: Linda Trinh Moser, Professor of English Missouri State University A Chinese-Eurasian’s autobiographical novel tracing a woman’s dual quest for a writing career and romance Ironically, Winnifred…
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Namako: Sea Cucumber Coffee House Press September 1998 256 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 1566890756; ISBN-13: 978-1566890755 Linda Watanabe McFerrin “McFerrin’s first novel paints a portrait of a truly multicultural family—a Scottish father, a half-British and half-Japanese mother, and four children… McFerrin’s writing is thoughtful and smooth as she captures ever-changing images of the world around Ellen…
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The Other Half of My Heart Random House June 2010 304 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-385-73440-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-440-24006-8 Sundee T. Frazier The close relationship of a pair of biracial twins is tested when their grandmother enters them in a pageant for African American girls in this new story from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent…
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Cogewea, The Half Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range University of Nebraska Press 1981 (originally published in 1927) 302 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-8110-3 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8032-3069-9 Mourning Dove (Humishuma) (1888-1936) Introduction by Dexter Fisher (Cirillo) One of the first known novels by a Native American woman, Cogewea (1927) is the story of…
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From the acclaimed author of “Shackling Water” comes the first great race novel of the twenty-first century, an incendiary and ruthlessly funny satire about violence, pop culture, and American identity.