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: Monographs
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Meet one of the most influential men in the United States’ history of emancipation and Black rights.
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Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica University of Pennsylvania Press June 2017 328 Pages 6.00 x 9.00 in, 10 illus. Hardcover ISBN: 9780812249187 Paperback ISBN: 9780812224603 eBook ISBN: Sasha Turner, Associate Professor of History The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in…
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Inspired by a real-life scandal that was shocking even for the tumultuous Roaring Twenties, this captivating novel tells the story of a pioneering Black journalist, a secret interracial marriage among the New York elite, and the sensational divorce case that ignited an explosive battle over race and class—and brought together three very different women fighting…
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An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents.
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Thomas C. Gannon’s “Birding While Indian” spans more than fifty years of childhood walks and adult road trips to deliver, via a compendium of birds recorded and revered, the author’s life as a part-Lakota inhabitant of the Great Plains.
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An award-winning writer retraces her dysfunctional, biracial, globe-trotting family’s journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household.
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The award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid, and deeply personal story of her mother’s abandonment and how the search for answers forced her to reckon with her own identity and the secrets that shaped her family for five decades.
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An award-winning journalist tells the story of his quest to reconcile with his white mother and the family he’d never met—and how faith brought them all together.
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Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama Rutgers University Press 2023-06-16 194 pages, 8 bw, 3 color 6.12 x 9.25 Paperback ISBN: 9781978835535 Cloth ISBN: 9781978835542 EPUB ISBN: 9781978835559 Kindle ISBN: 9781978835566 PDF ISBN: 9781978835573 Rena M. Heinrich, Assistant Professor of Theatre Practice University of Southern California Mixed-race Asian American plays are…
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The first biography of performing artist, writer, and civil and human rights activist Fredi Washington.