Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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: Asian Diaspora
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Hannah Lowe’s latest collection of poetry “Chan” (Bloodaxe, 2016) revisits the characters and stories from her first collection, “Chick” (Bloodaxe, 2013), which won the Michaels Murphy memorial Award for Best First Collection, and was short-listed for the Forward, Aldeburgh and Seamus Heaney Best First Collection Prizes.
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Meet the black Americans going home to China Cable News Network (CNN) 2016-12-27 Yazhou Sun, Producer CNN International Paula Madison grew up knowing she was different. Born in the predominantly African-American neighborhood of Harlem, New York, she was raised by a single mother who looked Chinese. “When my mother opened the door and told me…
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Fatherless and Abandoned, Vietnamese-Americans Search for Their Families Voice of America Learning English 2016-12-21 Hai Do VOANews.com Moki, Tan and Jannies were babies at the close of the American war in Vietnam in the 1970s. Their mothers were Vietnamese. Their fathers were American soldiers. In one way or another, they were all abandoned. Now, the…
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BEST OF 2016: Fractionalized — Stories of Biracial Joy, Pain, Struggle and Triumph Madison 365 Madison, Wisconsin 2016-12-26 Mia Sato University of Wisconsin, Madison Mixed. Multi. One-half-this and one-quarter-that. Biracial, mixed-race, “two or more races.” In a world obsessed with labels, the pressure to claim oneself as part of a racial group is an inescapable…
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Patricia Park talks about her Korean American spin on Jane Eyre The Los Angeles Times 2015-05-12 Steph Cha Patricia Park, author of “Re Jane” (Allana Taranto/Viking) What if Jane Eyre was a Korean American girl and Rochester was a English professor? Patricia Park on ‘Re Jane‘ Patricia Park’s debut novel, “Re Jane” (Pamela Dorman/Viking: 340…
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Re Jane: A Novel Pamela Dorman Books (an imprint of Penguin Random House) 2015-05-05 352 Pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0525427407 Paperback ISBN: 978-0143107941 Patricia Park For Jane Re, half-Korean, half-American orphan, Flushing, Queens, is the place she’s been trying to escape from her whole life. Sardonic yet vulnerable, Jane toils, unappreciated, in her strict uncle’s…
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China Machado, Breakthrough Model Until the End, Dies at 86 The New York Times On The Runway 2016-12-19 Vanessa Friedman China Machado, the first non-Caucasian to appear in the pages of an American glossy fashion magazine and a model who broke not only the race barrier but also the age barrier, died on Sunday in…
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Avoiding the One-Drop Rule The Harvard Advocate Fall 2016 Eli Lee This past January, I attended a concert at Philadelphia’s First Unitarian Church. The audience in the church’s dimly lit basement was tattooed, bedecked in social justice slogans and, like most punk show crowds, predominantly white. Two hours into the show, a local hardcore band…