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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Debut YA author Natasha Díaz pulls from her personal experience to inform this powerful coming-of-age novel about the meaning of friendship, the joyful beginnings of romance, and the racism and religious intolerance that can both strain a family to the breaking point and strengthen its bonds.
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“The Gap-Toothed Banister – A Tale of Anglo-India” is a close, compassionate look by Juliette Banerjee, an Anglo-Indian, at her community facing the challenges of change. It portrays with clarity the lives of Anglo-Indians in Calcutta during the 60s and 70s.
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1993 David Unaipon award-winning novel about exile and longing in a mixed-race community. It explores identity issues in an inner-city environment devoid of values and family heritage. Inevitable conflict as the protagonist must cross the bridge into the landscape of his Wiradjuri ancestors.
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Band of Angels, A Novel Louisiana State University Press August 1994 (originally published in 1955) 375 pages 5.50 x 8.50 inches no illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9780807119464 Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) Amantha Starr, born and raised by a doting father on a Kentucky plantation in the years before the Civil War, is the heroine of this…
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Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the American West take center stage in this haunting debut story collection—a powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands.
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Starling Days Hodder & Stoughton 2019-07-11 304 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781473638365 Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Mina is staring over the edge of the George Washington Bridge when a patrol car drives up. She tries to convince the officers she’s not about to jump but they don’t believe her. Her husband, Oscar is called to pick her…
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A Southern White Girl Gets The Shock Of Her Life
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Teeming with life and crackling with energy – a love song to modern Britain, to black womanhood, to the ever-changing heart of London
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A luminous and heartbreaking tale of identity, devotion, and regret
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Meet Boo, a wild-hearted boy from the bayou land of Louisiana. Misfit, outcast, loner. Call him anything but a victim. Sissy, fairy, Jenny Woman. Son of a mixed-race Holy Ghost mother and a Cajun French phantom father.