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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Loop of Jade: Sarah Howe visits Manchester Literature Festival Humanity Hallows 2016-11-04 Leigh Jones 2015 T.S. Eliot prize winner and author of A Certain Chinese Encyclopaedia, Sarah Howe made an appearance at the Manchester Literature Festival recently to discuss her novel Loop of Jade. Within her work, Howe takes her audience on a personal journey…
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Two halves, one American whole The Columbia Spectator 2016-11-16 Luciana Siracusano Halfie. That’s the endearing term I use to explain my ethnic and cultural heritage when people don’t know what to make of my facial features. My father is a third-generation Italian-Irish-American, and my mother is Korean and immigrated here in her 20s, so I’m…
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“Please select one”: Growing up with a multiracial identity The Seattle Globalist 2016-11-31 Jaya Duckworth, Senior Garfield High School, Seattle, Washington Jaya Duckworth (second from right) and friends hold signs showing pride in multiracial identities at a school district-wide walkout in protest of the election of Donald Trump. (Photo courtesy Jaya Duckworth.) Race: Please select…
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An Unsung Hero in the Story of Interracial Marriage The New Yorker 2016-11-17 David Muto, Copy Editor/Senior Web Producer Bill and Carol Muto on their wedding day, eight years after the U.S. Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virginia, struck down interracial-marriage bans. COURTESY BILL AND CAROL MUTO At my parents’ wedding, in Blacksburg, Virginia, my…
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Being Blackanese: The Evolving Embrace of Self and Community College of San Mateo CSM College Center Building 10, Room 193 1700 West Hillsdale Boulevard San Mateo, California 94402 USA Friday 2016-11-18, 18:30 PST (Local Time) Being Blackanese: The Evolving Embrace of Self and Community brings together an award winning literary artist, a scholar activist, and…
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Artist, surfer Kip Fulbeck to exhibit work at MSU Times Record News Wichita Falls, Texas 2016-11-03 Richard Carter, Special to the Times Record News Kip Fulbeck Kip Fulbeck grew up in Hawaii as the child of a Chinese mother and a white American father. In elementary school, children would come up to him and ask, “Who…
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50 years ago: Tucson couple broke down barriers to interracial marriage Arizona Capital Times 2009-11-01 Luige del Puerto Henry Oyama was beaming as he led his new bride from the altar of St. Augustine Cathedral in Tucson 50 years ago. She was wearing a traditional white wedding dress, and her left hand was grasping the…
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‘The Sympathizer,’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen Book Review The New York Times 2015-04-02 Philip Caputo The more powerful a country is, the more disposed its people will be to see it as the lead actor in the sometimes farcical, often tragic pageant of history. So it is that we, citizens of a superpower, have viewed…
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The Sympathizer Grove Press April 2015 384 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0802123459 Paperback ISBN: 978-0802124944 Viet Thanh Nguyen Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Winner of the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2016 Edgar Award for Best First Novel…