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: Poetry
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Before her untimely death in 2010, Ai, known for her searing dramatic monologues, was hailed as “one of the most singular voices of her generation” (New York Times Book Review). Now for the first time, all eight books by this essential and uniquely American poet have been gathered in one volume.
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Continuous Frieze Bordering Red Fordham University Press April 2012 78 pages 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 Hardcover ISBN: 9780823243044 Paperback ISBN: 9780823243051 Michelle Naka Pierce, Associate Professor Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado Continuous Frieze Bordering Red documents the migratory patterns of an Other, as she travels between countries, languages, seasons,…
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Creole Echoes: The Francophone Poetry of Nineteenth-Century Louisiana University of Illinois Press January 2004 280 pages 6 x 9 in. 1 black & white photograph Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07149-2 Translated by: Norman R. Shapiro, Professor of French Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut A collection of the first published works of Creole poets of the 1800s, in French,…
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Pauline Johnson: Selected Poetry and Prose Dundurn Press June 2013 240 pages 5.5 in x 8.5 in Paperback ISBN: 978-1-45970-426-8 eBook ISBN: 978-1-45970-428-2 Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) Compiled and Introduced by: Michael Gnarowski Pauline Johnson was an unusual and unique presence on the literary scene during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Part Mohawk and…
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Miracle Fruit Tupelo Press 2003 86 pages 9.1 x 6 x 0.3 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-0-9710310-8-1 Aimee Nezhukumatathil As three worlds collide, a mother’s Philippines, a father’s India, and the poet’s contemporary America, the resulting impressions are chronicled in this collection of incisive and penetrating verse. The writer weaves her words carefully into a wise…
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Darling: New & Selected Poems Bloodaxe Books 2007 224 pages Paperback ISBN: 1 85224 777 0 Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing Newcastle University Humour, gender, sexuality, sensuality, identity, racism, cultural difference: when do any of these things ever come together to equal poetry? When Jackie Kay’s part of the equation. Darling brings together into…
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An Evening with Our New Poet Laureate MixedRaceStudies.org 2012-09-16 Steven F. Riley 2012-2013 U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey at Library of Congress (2012-09-13).©2012, Steven F. Riley Natasha Trethewey is preoccupied about race. It is a fruitful preoccupation for which we all should be grateful. [View the inaugural reading transcript here.] Last Thursday, Emory University Professor Trethewey gave…
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kiyâm Athabasca University Press May 2012 144 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-926836-69-0 eBook (PDF) ISBN: 978-1-926836-70-6 eBook (EPub) ISBN: 978-1-926836-71-3 Naomi McIlwraith Through poems that move between the two languages, McIlwraith explores the beauty of the intersection between nêhiyawêwin, the Plains Cree language, and English, âkayâsîmowin. Written to honour her father’s facility in nêhiyawêwin and her…
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In this collection of poetry, prose, and personal essay, both new and well-known women authors of mixed race ancestry examine history, culture, and identity using insight from the female psyche.
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Chick Bloodaxe Books 2013-01-24 64 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 1852249609; ISBN-13: 978-1852249601 Hannah Lowe Hannah Lowe’s first book of poems takes you on a journey round her father, a Chinese-black Jamaican migrant who disappeared at night to play cards or dice in London’s old East End to support his family, an unstable and dangerous existence that…