Category: Autobiography

  • The Danger Of Unchallenged Racism In Interracial Relationships The Establishment 2016-07-18 TaLynn Kel It shouldn’t surprise me that interracial relationships are here to stay, considering that I’m in one. Still, I worry about the people in them. When I started dating “Kevin,” I was concerned about the demographics of the relationship. I worried about how…

  • Marrying Black Girls for Guys who aren’t Black Jacana Media October 2013 256 pages 198 x 130mm Paperback ISBN: 9781920601287 d-PDF ISBN: 9781920601294 ePUB ISBN: 9781920601300 mobi file ISBN: 9781920601317 Hagen Engler White guy Hagen Engler had been married to his black wife for a couple of years before he realised he was still a…

  • Standing Up for My Biracial Identity Marie Claire 2016-06-28 Christine Stoddard And what no one understands about it. I realized that my mother was unlike my classmates’ mothers the first time another kid asked if she was my nanny. From the on, I became a little spy in my own home—seeing my mother as other…

  • An Undocumented, Unofficial Indian Indian Country Today Media Network 2014-09-06 Chris Bethmann I remember a friend saying to me once, “Chris, you’re not a real Indian. And if you are, you’re the whitest Indian I know.” At the time, I shrugged it off, thinking to myself that he just didn’t understand the complex world of…

  • With “A Seminole Legend,” Betty Mae Jumper joins the ranks of Native American women who are coming forward to tell their life experiences.

  • A brilliant Jamaican-American writer takes on the themes of colonialism, race, myth, and political awakening through the experiences of a light-skinned woman named Clare Savage. The story is one of discovery as Clare moves through a variety of settings – Jamaica, England, America – and encounters people who affect her search for place and self.

  • Journey into Speech-A Writer between Two Worlds: An Interview with Michelle Cliff African American Review Volume 28, Number 2, Black Women’s Culture Issue (Summer, 1994) pages 273-281 DOI: 10.2307/3041999 Opal Palmer Adisa, Professor of Creative Writing California College of the Arts Among the subjects Jamaican born writer Michelle Cliff explores in her writings are ancestry,…

  • Oral history interview with Benny Andrews, 1968 June 30 Archives of American Art Smithsonian Institution Andrews, Benny, b. 1930 d. 2006 Painter Active in New York, N.Y. Size: Transcript: 29 pages Format: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformated in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hrs., 12 min. Collection Summary:…

  • Yes, I’m Black! Here’s why. Medium 2016-06-16 Megan Madison, Doris Duke Fellow School for Social Policy and Management Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Part of an EmbraceRace series on “mixed-race” identity. Based on how people identify themselves, and accounting for their parents’ and grandparents’ identities, the Pew Research Center recently found that 7% of US adults…

  • Talking Race: Space and Body The Bennington Free Press Bennington College, Bennington College, Vermont 2016-05-26 Samantha Barnett ‘19 I constantly think about how I move through space, how I claim space, how being mixed race means not knowing how my body will be identified. I think about how the first thing that I do when…