Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Category: Autobiography
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Julie Lythcott-Haims joins us to talk about her own upbringing as the child of a black father and white mother, during which she always felt part of “the other.”
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I researched my ancestry recently and learned that I come from a slave owner who fell in love with and married a slave. I had to process that revelation over time. I questioned what it meant and tried to put it into perspective. I now believe it’s why God blessed me with my twins.
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Mixed Feelings
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Trailblazer discovers confidence sought by top universities can be learned
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Some of my peers pegged me as an Asian immigrant, some have asked if I am Native Alaskan, and others simply asked ‘What are you?’
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Blinking in the Light Cinnamon Press 2016-02-01 28 pages ISBN-13: 978-1910836057 Louisa Adjoa Parker A collection of confessional poems which, in starkly telling a story about a fraught pregnancy and the suicide of a man very close to the speaker’s family, evokes with powerful images and unadorned language a raw sense of contemporary life.
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His narrative documents his persistent attempts to escape to freedom, beginning at age ten, offering an insider’s view of the degradation and varieties of slavery as well as its bitter legacies within families.
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“Adventures in Black and White,” a memoir-travelogue, was first published by world-renown child prodigy Philippa Duke Schuyler in 1960. In this first revised edition of “Adventures in Black and White” since its initial publication, scholar Tara Betts provides a critical introduction to this updated volume, including minor edits, and annotations of the original text.
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But I have to be honest. Living in Puerto Rico and Hurricane Maria changed me, and they continue to influence how I see myself and others.
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12% of UK households are mixed race. These are our stories.