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: Autobiography
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Hapa Girl: A Memoir Temple University Press March 2007 232 pages 5.5×8.25, 12 halftones Paper EAN: 978-1-59213-616-2 (ISBN: 1592136168) Cloth EAN: 978-1-59213-615-5 (ISBN: 159213615X May-lee Chai Named one of the Notable Books in the Kiriyama Prize, 2008 Honorable Mention at the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards, 2007 A vivid depiction of the racism suffered by…
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Published in 1860, shortly before the start of the Civil War,” Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom” is the narrative of William and Ellen Craft’s escape from slavery.
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Self-made women in a (racist) man’s world: The ‘tragic’ lives of Nella Larsen and Bessie Head English Academy Review Volume 25, Issue 1 (May 2008) pages 66-76 DOI: 10.1080/10131750802099490 Diana Mafe, Assistant Professor of English Denison University, Granville, Ohio (Her research aims to situate mixed race studies in a relatively unexplored sub-Saharan African context.) Nella…
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Salt-sweat & Tears Cinnamon Press March 2007 80 pages 21 x 14 x 0.8 cm Paperback ISBN 10: 1905614187; ISBN-13: 978-1905614189 Louisa Adjoa Parker Of Ghanaian-British descent Louisa Adjoa Parker explores issues of identity, belonging, family and relationships in raw, honest, but crafted pieces. Mulatto Girl See the mulatto girl walking down country lanes and…
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The Politics of Parenting in ‘Mixed’ Families: An Autobiographical Account Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Atlanta Hilton Hotel Atlanta, Georgia 2003-08-16 Nora Lester Murad, Founder and Executive Director Dalia Association This paper explores common themes in the varied experiences of parents in families that are “mixed” in terms of…
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Second Glances: Two African-American Women Take a Closer Look at their Jewish Identities Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal Volume 13, Number 2 (Autumn 2008) pages 52-63 Amy André Nzinga Koné-Miller This conversation is co-written by two African American women, one who converted to Judaism and one who was born Jewish. They dialogue about the differences…