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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Marguerite Penrose’s is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a Dublin mother-and-baby home in 1974, the daughter of an Irish mother and a Zambian father.
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I always felt like an outsider, but being mixed is filled with beauty and complexity.
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My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist’s Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole Farrar, Straus and Giroux (an imprint of Macmillan Publishers) 2022-05-03 240 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780374604875 Audio ISBN: 9781250856319 Digital Audio ISBN: 9781250856326 e-Book ISBN: 9780374604882 Will Jawando, Councilmember Montgomery County, Maryland Will Jawando tells a deeply affirmative…
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With my father’s death I lost the link to my Jamaican lineage, and I needed to address that. It is vital to embrace all sides of yourself
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Colin Kaepernick’s “I Color Myself Different” is a new children’s book based on the football player’s true and inspiring journey as a child learning the value of embracing and celebrating their Black identity “through the power of radical self-love” and knowing their inherent worth.
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An inspiring story of identity and self-esteem from celebrated athlete and activist Colin Kaepernick.
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Williams spent the first ten years of his life believing he was white in segregated Virginia, and that his dark-skinned father was Italian. When his parents’ marriage ended, his father took him and his brother to Muncie, Indiana, where the boys learned that they were half black.
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“Unknowingly, I started to reject all of the parts of myself that were Black.”
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In her fourth full-length book, “White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia,” Kiki Petrosino turns her gaze to Virginia, where she digs into her genealogical and intellectual roots, while contemplating the knotty legacies of slavery and discrimination in the Upper South.