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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Desdemona’s Fire Lotus Press/Wayne State University Press 1999 61 pages 5.5 x 8.5 Paper ISBN: 9780916418830 Ruth Ellen Kocher, Associate Professor of English University of Colorado, Boulder This is the author’s first book and winner of the 1999 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. While miscegenation has always been more a part of American history than…
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Joe Christmas and the Chamber of Secrets – The Black/ White Dilemma in William Faulkner’s Light in August Africa Resource 2010-04-04 21 paragraphs Isabel Adonis, Writer and Artist I read William Faulkner’s Light in August in my early teens and I scarcely understood it. But I understood something and many years later a woman at…
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Black Welsh Identity: the unspeakable speaks. British Broadcasting Corporation North West Wales 2006-05-30 Isabel Adonis, Writer and Artist Isabel Adonis was born in London and brought up in Llandudno, the Sudan and Nigeria. She spent 21 years in Bethesda before returning to Llandudno. She helped found Timbuktu, a new international arts and literary journal. This…
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Stories and survival’: An Interview with Jackie Kay Wasafiri Volume 25, Issue 4, 2010 pages 19-22 DOI: 10.1080/02690055.2010.510366 Maggie Gee Jackie Kay has had a glittering career as a writer of poetry, fiction and drama for both adults and children. She was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian…
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The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics MIT Press January 2009 368 pages 7 x 9, 35 illus. Paper ISBN-10: 0-262-58275-9; ISBN-13: 978-0-262-58275-9 Evelynn M. Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies (and Dean of Harvard College)…
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Glenn Robinson to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #227? – Glenn Robinson When:…
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“Never Was Born”: The Mulatto, an American Tragedy? The Massachusetts Review Volume 27, Number 2 (Summer, 1986) page 293-316 Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Afro American Studies; Director of the History of American Civilization Program Harvard University In my first marriage I paid my compliments to my…
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Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark as a Trans-Atlantic Tragic Mulatta Narrative Sargasso: Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language, and Culture Volume I (2009-2010) pages 79-92 Ania Spyra, Assistant Professor of English Butler University “pretty useful mask that white one.” —Jean Rhys, Voyage In the Dark Images of masks and masking surface repeatedly in Jean Rhys’s…