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: Women
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Embracing the crossroads that made the region distinctive this book reveals how American families have always been characterized by greater diversity than idealizations of the traditional family have allowed. The essays show how family life figured prominently in relations to larger struggles for conquest and control.
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The US author on topping the bestseller charts with her new novel, why being right is overrated, and the TV show bringing her joy in lockdown
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HBO won a wild auction that sources said saw 17 bidders vying for “The Vanishing Half,” the novel by Brit Bennett that is currently atop The New York Times bestseller list.
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Shadow Child Grand Central Publishing 2018-05-08 352 pages Hardcover ISBN-13: 9781538711453 eBook ISBN-13: 9781538711446 Rahna Reiko Rizzuto For fans of Tayari Jones and Ruth Ozeki, from National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Rizzuto comes a haunting and suspenseful literary tale set in 1970s New York City and World War II-era Japan, about three strong women,…
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We’d had to be cut free of our mother’s womb. She’d never have been able to push the two-headed sport that was me and Abby out the usual way. Abby and I were fused, you see. Conjoined twins. Abby’s head, torso, and left arm protruded from my chest. But here’s the real kicker; Abby had…
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Erika Denise Edward’s new book, is both innovative as well as firmly grounded in the rich tradition of scholarship that illuminates the manifold processes, policies, sites, and situations in which notions of whiteness were negotiated, reified, and contested across the New World.
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Métis author says the published version of her 1973 memoir ‘didn’t tell the complete story’
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To be a good mom to my kids, I must be their fiercest advocate at all times, because the world won’t be.
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This article focuses on the experiences of women of African descent who were made captives (and, in some cases, recaptives) after the 1683 buccaneer raid on Veracruz,