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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African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman Southern Spaces: A Journal about Real and Imagined Spaces and Places of the US South and their Global Connections 2004-03-16 DOI: 10.18737/M7XP4B Carole Merritt Portrait of Adrienne Herndon, date unknown. (c) The Herndon Home. Overview Ahead of her time and outside of her assigned place, Adrienne…
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One of the Coast Guard’s great heroes and the secret he kept hidden
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All of which makes Michael Tisserand’s “Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White” a fascinating and frustrating biography. Though Herriman’s “Krazy Kat” comic strip was admired in his lifetime, it wasn’t until years after his death in 1944 that his vast influence received widespread critical respect.
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The Boyden affair just got murkier: Salutin The Toronto Star 2017-01-13 Rick Salutin Celebrated author agrees to select interviews, insists he never embellished or lied about his heritage, but also offered platitudes versus confronting precise criticisms I found Joseph Boyden’s interview Wednesday on CBC — in a word rarely called for — unctuous. He surfaced…
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Full interview: Joseph Boyden on his heritage CBC Radio 2017-01-11 Jesse Kinos-Goodin Author Joseph Boyden addresses the recent controversy surrounding his Indigenous ancestral claims. (Penguin) “A small part of me is Indigenous, but it’s a big part of who I am.” Is Joseph Boyden really Indigenous? It’s a question a lot of people have been…
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Acclaimed novelist Joseph Boyden faces controversy surrounding his heritage but there is a long history in North American of blurred lines.
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She’s not ashamed of who she is but in Baltimore it’s easier to be a white girl with a black girl’s ass than to be a black girl who looks white or any other kind of black girl for that matter…
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Episode 199 – Michael Tisserand Virtual Memories: The chief of the Inner Station 2017-01-02 Gil Roth, Host “I always feel like Herriman’s a a step ahead of me. When I read Krazy Kat I think I know what I’m reading; the next week I read the same strip and I realize I’m reading something different…
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Still ‘Krazy’ after all these years: A life of George Herriman, pioneering comic writer and N.O. exile The New Orleans Advocate 2016-12-05 Susan Larson, Host, The Reading Life WWNO-FM, New Orleans George Herriman, from Michael Tisserand’s Krazy Kat bio of George Herriman For Michael Tisserand, as for most of us, the love of comics came…