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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Borders Book Festival: Where Words Come Alive—Jackie Kay Harmony Marquee Melrose, Scotland 2010-06-20, 20:30 BST (Local Time) Published only days before the festival, Red Dust Road is Jackie Kay’s autobiographical journey. Adopted by warm-spirited Scottish communists, Jackie has never thought of anyone else as her ‘real’ parents, but meeting her birth father and mother was…
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‘What makes us who we are? My adoption is a story that has happened to me. I couldn’t make it up.’
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Jackie Kay’s Representation of ‘The Broons’: Scotland’s Happy Family eSharp Special Issue: Spinning Scotland: Exploring Literary and Cultural Perspectives (2009) pages 109-143 ISSN: 1742-4542 Mª del Coral Calvo Maturana Universidad de Granada This paper focuses on the contemporary Scottish poet Jackie Kay and the comic strip ‘The Broons’ by studying Jackie Kay’s representation of this…
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The Poet as Cultural Dentist: Ethnicity in the Poetry of Jackie Kay Theory and Practice in English Studies 4 (2005) Proceedings from the Eighth Conference of British, American and Canadian Studies. Brno: Masarykova Univerzita pages 63-67 Pavlína Hácová, Philosophical Faculty Palacky University, Olomouc The acclaimed British poet Jackie Kay (born 1961) belongs to the colourful…
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Jackie Kay (Review of Darling) Aesthetica Magazine Issue 19 (2007-10-01) page 10 Rachel Hazelwood Jackie Kay is one of the most prolific and insightful poets currently writing in the UK today. At a time when too many people frequently describe the form as being “in decline” and thought of as an “exclusive club”, Kay writes…
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“Black Skin, Black Masks: Hybridity, Dialogism, Performativity” offers a timely exploration of Black identity and its negotiation. The book draws on empirical work recording everyday conversations between Black women: friends, peers and family members.
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Don’t tell me who I am The Guardian 2002-01-12 Libby Brooks, Deputy Comment Editor Jackie Kay has become used to all kinds of assumptions being made about her identity—literary, national, sexual and familial. The more annoying, because the joy of being a writer is that you can create any persona you like. On the other…