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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It’s Not All Black and White: Multiracial Youth Speak Out Annick Press 2012 120 pages Softcover ISBN 13: 9781554513802 St. Stephen’s Community House Toronto, Ontario, Canada Through poems, interviews, and short essays, a group of young people tell what it’s like to be biracial, multiracial, or of mixed race. These poignant firsthand accounts reflect the…
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Interview: Jackie Kay The Journal Newcastle upon Tyne 2013-03-30 Jackie Kay is about to be read in places most writers never reach. David Whetstone spoke to her. YOU can imagine there are lots of things a writer dreams of – literary prizes, lucrative deals, maybe a film adaptation. But a different accolade has come the…
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The Urban Underworld in Late Nineteenth-Century New York: The Autobiography of George Appo Bedford/St. Martin’s 2013 208 pages Paper ISBN-10: 0-312-60762-8; ISBN-13: 978-0-312-60762-3 George Appo (1856-1930) Edited with an Introduction by: Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Professor of History Loyola University, Chicago Through the colorful autobiography of pickpocket and con man George Appo, Timothy Gilfoyle brings to…
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands James Blackwood Paternoster Row 1857 198 pages Mary Seacole (1805-1881) Mary Seacole was born a free black woman in Jamaica in the early nineteenth century. In her long and varied life, she travelled in Central America, Russia, and Europe; found work as an inn-keeper and as a…
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Lyn Dickens relates her experiences of being a young Eurasian woman in Australia
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The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White University of Iowa Press April 2013 144 pages 5 ¾ x 9 ¼ Paper ISBN: 1-60938-160-2; 978-1-60938-160-8 Aisha Sabatini Sloan In these intertwined essays on art, music, and identity, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, the daughter of African American and Italian American parents,…
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Divided To The Vein: A Journey into Race and Family Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1996 320 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 0151931070; ISBN-13: 978-0151931071 Scott Minerbrook Scott Minerbrook’s parents hail from opposite ends of the cultural spectrum. His father was a pampered only child born into Chicago’s aspiring black bourgeoisie, while his mother was an idealistic girl from…
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Ten Thousand Sorrows Bantam Books 2000 240 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 0553812645; ISBN-13: 978-0553812640 Elizabeth Kim ‘I don’t know how old I was when I watched my mother’s murder, nor do I know how old I am today.’ The illegitimate daughter of a peasant and an American GI, Elizabeth Kim spent her early years as a…