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: Book/Video Reviews
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Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People by Michel Hogue (review) Labour / Le Travail Issue 77, Spring 2016 pages 297-299 DOI: 10.1353/llt.2016.0039 Sterling Evans, Louise Welsh Chair in Southern Plains and Borderlands History University of Oklahoma Michel Hogue, Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a…
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Long Time Passing Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2009-01-23 Amy Finnerty Baz Dreisinger, Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008). How black is Eminem? How white is our president? We can’t help asking these awkward questions as we digest “Near Black,” by Baz Dreisinger. A freelance journalist…
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‘Ladivine,’ by Marie NDiaye Book Review The New York Times 2016-05-05 Patrick McGrath LADIVINE By Marie NDiaye Translated by Jordan Stump 276 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $26.95. Marie NDiaye is the author of more than a dozen plays and works of fiction. Currently living in Berlin, having left France in 2009, by her own account…
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Paperback Row Book Review The New York Times 2016-04-29 Joumana Khatib Seven new paperbacks to check out this week… …A CHOSEN EXILE: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, by Allyson Hobbs. (Harvard University, $16.95.) People who chose to “pass” were intentionally clandestine and left few clues of their histories, but here, Hobbs, a…
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Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America – Book Review National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) 2016-04-04 Shauna Harris Rockquemore, Kerry Ann and David L. Brunsma, Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (Second Edition) (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007). Beyond Black is a groundbreaking study that used both interview and survey data of young black/white…
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Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South by Melissa Schrift (review) Journal of American Folklore Volume 129, Number 511, Winter 2016 pages 102-103 Jim Clark Melissa Schrift, Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013) In the thorough but concise introduction to her book…
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Coiled Serpent: Poems that Protect, in New Anthology KCET Burbank, California 2016-04-01 Mike Sonksen The coiled serpent serves as a poetic totem to protect the City of Angels. Published by Tia Chucha Press Over the last five years, a number of books and anthologies have been published to spotlight literary Los Angeles and its rich…
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Book Review: Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana by Carina Ray Africa at LSE London School of Economics 2016-03-18 Yovanka Perdigao Yovanka Perdigao praises Crossing the Color Line:Race, Sex and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana for dismantling preconceptions of interracial couples in colonial Ghana. Carina…