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 Madonna of Excelsior: A Novel Picador (an imprint of Macmillan) March 2005 288 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780312423827; ISBN10: 0312423829 Zakes Mda, Professor of Creative Writing Ohio University In 1971, nineteen citizens of Excelsior in South Africa’s white-ruled Free State were charged with breaking apartheid’s Immorality Act, which forbade…
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Comedy: American Style Rutgers University Press October 2009 (Originally Published in 1933) 304 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4632-2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4631-5 Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) Edited and with an Introduction by: Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Professor of English University of Wisconsin, Madison Comedy: American Style, Jessie Redmon Fauset’s fourth and final novel, recounts the tragic tale of a…
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A controversial but appealing, amusing, and vivacious celebration of Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920’s
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The Fifth Figure Bloodaxe Books 2006-09-28 80 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 1852247320; ISBN-13: 978-1852247324 Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze is a popular Jamaican Dub poet and storyteller whose performances are so powerful she has been called a ‘one-woman festival’. The Fifth Figure is a book-length sequence mixing poetry and prose which chronicles the lives of…
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Quicksand and Passing Rutgers University Press 1986 246 pages Paper ISBN: 0-8135-1170-4 Nella Larsen (1891-1964) Edited by Deborah E. McDowell, Alice Griffin Professor of English University of Virginia Nella Larsen’s novels Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929) document the historical realities of Harlem in the 1920s and shed a bright light on the social world of…
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Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, AD 1933-1940 Random House 1999 (Originally Published: 1931) 208 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-375-75380-0 George S. Schuyler (1895-1977) Introduction by Ishmael Reed What would happen to the race problem in America if black people turned white?…
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“An Imperative Duty” tells the story of Rhoda Aldgate, a young woman on the verge of marriage who has been raised by her aunt to assume that she is white, but who is in fact the descendant of an African-American grandmother.
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The Heart of Hyacinth University of Washington Press 2000 (Originally published in 1903) 288 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 Paperback ISBN: paperback (9780295979168 Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton) (1875-1954) Introduction by: Samina Najmi, Professor of English California State University, Fresno The Heart of Hyacinth, originally published in 1903, tells the coming-of-age story of Hyacinth Lorrimer, a child…
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Glow, A Novel Viking (an imprint of Penguin Press) 2012-03-15 336 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780670023318 ePub eBook ISBN: 9781101560976 eBook Adobe Reader ISBN: 9781101557563 Jessica Maria Tuccelli In the autumn of 1941, Amelia J. McGee, a young woman of Cherokee and Scotch-Irish descent, and an outspoken pamphleteer for the NAACP, hastily sends her daughter, Ella,…
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Three brothers tear their way through childhood— smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn—he’s Puerto Rican, she’s white—and their love is a serious, dangerous thing that makes…