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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“To Lift Up My Race,” a collection of writings by Cassius, gives us the man–evangelist, educator, farmer, entrepreneur, postmaster, politician, and father of twenty-three–in a significant moment in the emergence of black culture and society between Reconstruction and the Great Depression.
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What happens when the baby they buried comes back?
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The Book Keeper: A Memoir of Race, Love, and Legacy Swallow Press (an imprint of Ohio University Press) January 2020 256 pages 5½ × 8½ in. Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8040-1221-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8040-4106-5 Julia McKenzie Munemo In a memoir that’s equal parts love story, investigation, and racial reckoning, Munemo unravels and interrogates her whiteness, a shocking…
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All mixed up: Multiracial students at CVHS say they don’t fit in one box The Upstream: The Student-Run News Site of Carnegie Vanguard High School Houston, Texas 2022-02-02 Sofia Hegstrom, Contributing Writer Noah Mohamed, Staff Writer Senior Xen Villareal identifies as mixed-race indigenous and is one-quarter Black. Photo courtesy of Xen Villareal My eyebrows furrowed…
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A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery University of North Carolina Press September 2011 (originally published in 1840) 50 pages 6 x 9, 4 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-6965-9 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8078-6966-6 Moses Roper (c1815-1891) The Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper can be read as…
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Black and German: news anchor Jana Pareigis has spent her entire life being asked about her skin color and afro hair. What is it like to be Black in Germany? What needs to change?
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From the bestselling and Booker Prize-winning author of “Girl, Woman,” Other, Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir of her own life and writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and activism
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Anchored by Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga, ‘Passing’ on Netflix tells the story of racial passing back in 1920s New York. But it’s more relevant, and personal, than ever