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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By unflinchingly charting the intersections of public and personal history, “Thrall” explores the historical, cultural, and social forces—across time and space—that determine the roles consigned to a mixed-race daughter and her white father.
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Native Guard: Poems Mariner Books an Imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2007-04-03 64 pages Trim Size: 5.50 x 8.25 Paperback ISBN-13/EAN: 9780618872657; ISBN-10: 0618872655 Natasha Trethewey, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing Emory University Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught…
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Race Poem via Poetry Foundation from: Antebellum Dream Book Graywolf Press 2001 72 pages Paperback ISBN: 1-55597-354-X Elizabeth Alexander, President The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York, New York Sometimes I think about Great-Uncle Paul who left Tuskegee, Alabama to become a forester in Oregon and in so doing became fundamentally white for the rest…
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Brown Eyes: A Selection of Creative Expressions by Black and Mixed Race Women Troubador Publishing 2006 292 pages 5 x 0.6 x 8 inches ISBN 10: 1905237146; ISBN-13: 978-1905237142 Edited by: Nicole Moore Brown Eyes is a rare collection of poetry and autobiographical writing from a diverse group of black and mixed-race women—everyday women expressing…
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Winner: 2007 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry
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Doubters and Dreamers University of Arizona Press 2011 96 pages 5.50 in x 8.50 in Paper ISBN: 978-0-8165-2927-8 Janice Gould Doubters and Dreamers opens with a question from a young girl faced with the spectacle of Indian effigies lynched and burned “in jest” before UC Berkeley’s annual Big Game against Stanford: “What’s a debacle, Mom?”…
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Faking It: Poetics & Hybridity: Critical Writing 1984-1999 NeWest Press Spring 2000 288 pages Paperback ISBN 13: 978-1-896300-07-8 Fred Wah According to Fred Wah, the act of thinking critically is one of exploration and discovery. In Faking It, Wah demonstrates how writing poetry is writing critically. This scrapbook of Wah’s work—collected from fifteen years of…
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Desdemona’s Fire Lotus Press/Wayne State University Press 1999 61 pages 5.5 x 8.5 Paper ISBN: 9780916418830 Ruth Ellen Kocher, Associate Professor of English University of Colorado, Boulder This is the author’s first book and winner of the 1999 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. While miscegenation has always been more a part of American history than…
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The Writer’s Almanac Podcast with Garrison Keillor [Charles Wadell Chesnutt] The Writer’s Almanac 2011-06-20 Garrison Keillor, Host Today in history and a poem or two. It’s the birthday of Charles Waddell Chesnutt (books by this author), born on this day in Cleveland (1858). His parents were free mixed-race Southerners who left Fayetteville, North Carolina, for…
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Les Cenelles Centenary College of Louisiana Press / Editions Tintamarre January 2003 208 pages ISBN: 0-9723258-9-1 Armand Lanusse The text is in French. With few exceptions, the poets of Les Cenelles–the very first collection of poetry by Creoles of color–do not directly address their precarious situation in a South that was ever increasingly hostile to…