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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‘The Firebrand and the First Lady,’ by Patricia Bell-Scott Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2016-02-19 Irin Carmon Pauli Murray, in 1946, and Eleanor Roosevelt, circa 1943. Credit Left, Bettmann/Corbis; right, Stock Montage/Getty Images Patricia Bell-Scott, The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for…
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‘The Black Calhouns,’ by Gail Lumet Buckley Book Review The New York Times 2016-03-16 Patricia J. Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia University, New York, New York THE BLACK CALHOUNS From Civil War to Civil Rights With One African American Family By Gail Lumet Buckley Illustrated. 353 pp. Atlantic Monthly Press. $26. In…
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Pao by Kerry Young – review The Guardian 2011-07-03 Ian Thomson Young, Kerry, Pao: A Novel (London, Oxford, New York, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011) Kerry Young’s mesmerising first novel celebrates Jamaica’s ethnic melting pot, and the lost world of Kingston’s Chinatown Jamaica, where Kerry Young was born in 1955, is an island of…
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Who’s the most photographed American man of the 19th Century? HINT: It’s not Lincoln… The Washington Post 2016-03-15 Jennifer Beeson Gregory Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass would become one of the most well-known abolitionists, orators, and writers of his time. He understood and heralded not only the power of the written or spoken…
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Book Review – Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial World Mixed Race Feminist Blog 2016-03-18 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial World, Sharon H. Chang, Routledge, 2016, 264pp, £27.99, ISBN 978-1612058481 I was really excited to finally get my hands on a copy…
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Jackie Kay’s Quest For Her Roots – Theresa Muñoz Scottish Review of Books Volume 6, Issue 3 (2010-08-12) Theresa Muñoz Adopted at birth, Jackie Kay discovered neither of her birth parents were who she’d thought they’d be, her new memoir recalls. “If you have skin my colour” writes Jackie Kay in her memoir Red Dust…
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Mom Writes Book, ‘Bad Hair Does Not Exist!’ For Daughters NBC News 2016-02-17 Maya Chung Bad Hair Does Not Exist/Pelo Malo No Existe! is a Children’s Book by Sulma Arzu-Brown. “Bad Hair Does Not Exist!” is a new bilingual book that encourages young Black, Afro-Latino, and multi-racial girls to see themselves, and their hair, as…
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Review ‘A Ballerina’s Tale’ follows Misty Copeland’s incredible rise in the ballet world The Los Angeles Times 2016-02-08 Mary McNamara, Contact Reporter Misty Copeland in the documentary “A Ballerina’s Tale.” (Oskar Landi / Sundance Selects) If you think #OscarsSoWhite, consider the world of elite ballet. And if you want to understand why the current conversation…
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In “Love, Anger, Madness,” Marie Vieux-Chauvet explores the choking fear of life under “Papa Doc” Duvalier.