Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Blood & Belonging Amazon Digital Services 2018-11-09 156 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1730892684 Sirinda Pairin Siri Pairin’s poems explore the challenges and triumphs of biracial identity. With an honest and minimalist style, she writes about themes such as duality, belonging, love, home, space, culture, identity, race, ethnicity, heritage, and representation.
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In Bitterroot Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to understand the complexities and struggles of being an American Indian child adopted by a white couple and living in the rural American West.
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Sharon H. Chang recently released a memoir called Hapa Tales and Other Lies: A Mixed Race Memoir about the Hawai’i I Never Knew. The book is an exploration of her Mixed Race Asian American identity through the lens of being a tourist in Hawai’i, a place with many Mixed Race Asians where Chang was indirectly…
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Souter, a Rochester favorite after multiple jazz festival appearances, has created an exquisite musical exploration of her identity. At the age 28, she discovered that her birth father was black and her roots reached from Africa to the Caribbean, from Celtic Britain to Andalusian Spain.
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Picture in Black and White NOA Records 2018-10-05 Tessa Souter Kothbiro Contemplation (Ancestors) A Taste of Honey Dancing girl/Where the Streets Have No Name Ana Maria’s Song (Ana Maria) Child of Love Picture in Black and White You Don’t Have To Believe Reynardine Siren Song Lonely Woman Nothing Will Be As It Was with Yotam…
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Here’s how to navigate passing and belonging as a multiracial person.
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Author Danzy Senna’s heritage gives her a unique perspective on race in America.
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Despite the ongoing trauma I’ve experienced and the toxic things I’ve had to unlearn, I wouldn’t trade being Blasian for anything.
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As a mixed-race kid with free-form hair, Lisa Rosenberg believed learning to blow bubblegum bubbles would be her ticket to an idealized (white) American girlhood.