Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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Hybrid by Robert Wood Mascara Literary Review 2015-10-04 Robert Wood Robert Wood grew up in a multicultural household in Perth. He holds degrees from the Australian National University and the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a National Undergraduate Scholar and a Benjamin Franklin Fellow respectively. He has edited for Margaret River Press, Wild Dingo…
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The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman: A Narrative of Real Life Including Previously Uncollected Letters Syracuse University Press 2016 360 pages 2 black-and-white illustrations, appendix, notes, index 7 x 10 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8156-3446-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8156-1068-7 ebook ISBN: 978-0-8156-5369-1 J. W. Loguen (1813-1872) Edited and with a Critical Introduction…
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“In The Face: Cartography of the Void,” acclaimed poet, novelist, and screenwriter Chris Abani has given us a brief memoir that is, in the best tradition of the genre, also an exploration of the very nature of identity.
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I’m Filipino too: Filipino-ness and Multiraciality gal-dem 2016-06-01 Amena Conopio-Ziard When I first participated in an online Austronesian community group, a member questioned me, in Tagalog, if I was Filipino. He thought by messaging me in Tagalog he could cleverly catch me out in an autonomous space he believed I shouldn’t be in… Read the…
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Nadia Karizat: Divided into nothing The Michigan Daily 2016-05-18 Nadia Karizat There are moments in my life that have burned me silently and set me up for questioning what I am. I say “what” and not “who” because I know who I am. I am someone who believes that the best moments are spontaneous, that…
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Fractionalized: Stories of Biracial Joy, Pain, Struggle and Triumph Madison 365 Madison, Wisconsin 2016-06-25 Mia Sato, Senior University of Wisconsin, Madison Mixed. Multi. One-half-this and one-quarter-that. Biracial, mixed-race, “two or more races.” In a world obsessed with labels, the pressure to claim oneself as part of a racial group is an inescapable reality for a…
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Mixed race author on the struggle of having to ‘pick a side’ The Voice 2016-06-05 Davina Hamilton, Entertainment Editor LIFETIME OF LOVE: Gus and sister Chi-chi with their parents Michael and Margaret Author Gus Nwanokwu on growing up with a Nigerian father and Irish mother in 1960s Britain THE PRESSURE to ‘pick a side’, the…
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Black Shamrocks: Accommodation Available – No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2016-03-24 482 pages 15.2 x 2.8 x 22.9 cm Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1523490912 Gus Michael Nwanokwu While many academics and social scientists have examined the psychological and societal implications of growing up as a mixed-race person, few works exist that chronicle…
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I’m mixed race. That doesn’t mean you can ask me, “What are you?” The Tempest 2016-05-21 Maya Williams I’m not your exotic half-breed toy, so don’t treat me, or anyone else, like one. “Which parent is white?” many have asked me. That question tends to bother me as much as the “What are you?” question,…