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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Spit Back a Boy: Poems by Iain Haley Pollock The University of Georgia Press 2011-06-15 72 pages Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 ISBN: 978-0-8203-3908-5 Iain Haley Pollock, English Teacher Springside-Chestnut Hill Academy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Winner of the 2010 The Cave Canem Poetry Prize Iain Haley Pollock’s poems cover the ground from a woman late to…
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The Quadroon Girl Poems on Slavery 1842 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Provided by the Maine Historical Society The Slaver in the broad lagoon Lay moored with idle sail; He waited for the rising moon, And for the evening gale. Under the shore his boat was tied, And all her listless crew Watched…
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Mulatto [Poem] 1927 Langston Hughes (1902-1967) I am your son, white man! Georgia dusk And the turpentine woods. One of the pillars of the temple fell. You are my son! Like Hell! The moon over the turpentine woods. The Southern night Full of stars, Great big yellow stars. What’s a body but a toy? Juicy…
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This anthology of poetry, spoken word, fiction, creative non-fiction, spoken word texts, as well as black and white artwork and photography, explores the question of how mixed-race women in North America identify in the twenty-first century.
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Centuries of skin Ragged Raven Press 2010 80 pages ISBN: 978-0-9552552-9-8 Joanna Ezekiel Some of the poems in Joanna Ezekiel’s first full poetry collection Centuries of skin engage imaginatively with her discoveries, in childhood and adolescence, of her dual Indian Jewish and Eastern European Jewish heritage. In the title poem, Centuries of skin, Ezekiel responds…
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Seni Seneviratne’s debut collection offers a poetic landscape that echoes themes of migration, family, love and loss and reflects her personal journey as a woman of Sri Lankan and English heritage.
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Fort Red Border Sarabande Books 2009-08-01 88 pages Trim: 9 x 6 Paper ISBN: 978-1-932511-74-1 Kiki Petrosino, Professor of Poetry University of Virginia Kiki Petrosino has audacity to spare. She devotes the entire first section of her debut collection of poems to a putative affair the speaker is conducting with an imaginary Robert Redford. In…
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Black Through a Distortion Pedal San Fransisco Bay Press 2010-01-01 Eric Wilkinson Black Through a Distortion Pedal is a poetry compilation about indulgence in and resistance to a racialized world from the perspective of a white youth who found his voice in hip-hop. Wilkinson explores the genesis of multiple selves in an era of increasingly…