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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“Pig Candy” is the poignant and often comical story of a grown daughter getting to know her dying father in his last months. During a series of visits with her father to the South he’d escaped as a young black man, Lise Funderburg, the mixed-race author of the acclaimed “Black, White, Other,” comes to understand…
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Hay winner’s search for identity BBC News 2003-05-27 A first-time writer who travelled halfway round the world to trace her roots has won the Welsh Book of the Year award at the Hay Festival. Charlotte Williams’ tale of her search for her identity, entitled Sugar and Slate, took her to three different continents. Ms Williams,…
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Coming Out As Black, When You Were Hispanic Tell Me More National Public Radio 2013-06-06 Celeste Headlee, Guest Host High school senior Elaine Vilorio wrote that she started seriously contemplating her blackness when she stopped straightening her hair. Elaine Vilorio Teen Elaine Vilorio spent years trying to make sense of her racial identity. She describes…
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Representing Mixed Race: Beyond “What are you?” Talking Race: A Digital Dialog 2013-05-28 Laura Kina, Vincent DePaul Associate Professor of Art, Media and Design DePaul University My 2011-12 oil paintings Issei, Nisei, Sansei, Yonsei, and Gosei are on view in “Under My Skin: Artists Explore Race in the 21st Century” at the Wing Luke Museum…
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My Passage at the New Orleans Tribune: A Memoir of the Civil War Era LSU Press April 2001 (Originally published in 1872) 184 pages 5.50 x 9.00 inches 3 halftones ISBN10: 0807126896, ISBN13: 9780807126899 Jean-Charles Houzeau (1820-1888) Edited by David C. Rankin Translated by Gerard F. Denault When Belgian scientist Jean-Charles Houzeau arrived in New…
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Halving the Bones: A film by Ruth Ozeki Women Make Movies 1995 70 minutes Color/BW, DVD Ruth Ozeki, Filmmaker, Novelist, and Zen Buddhist Priest Skeletons in the closet? Halving the Bones delivers a surprising twist to this tale. This cleverly-constructed film tells the story of Ruth, a half-Japanese filmmaker living in New York, who has inherited…
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‘Yokohama Yankee’: a family’s lineage in both Japan and America The Seattle Times Books 2013-04-01 David Takami, Special to The Seattle Times ‘Yokohama Yankee: My Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan’ by Leslie Helm Chin Music Press, 360 pp. Leslie Helm’s remarkable family memoir begins at a point of personal distress. At a memorial…