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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Nadine Ehlers examines the constructions of blackness and whiteness cultivated in the U.S. imaginary and asks, how do individuals become racial subjects?
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Walking in Two Worlds: Mixed-Blood Indian Women Seeking Their Path Caxton Press 2006 264 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 0-87004-450-8 Nancy M. Peterson Nancy M. Peterson tells the stories of mixed-blood women who, steeped in the tradition of their Indian mothers but forced into the world of their white fathers, fought to find their…
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Spit Back a Boy: Poems by Iain Haley Pollock The University of Georgia Press 2011-06-15 72 pages Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 ISBN: 978-0-8203-3908-5 Iain Haley Pollock, English Teacher Springside-Chestnut Hill Academy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Winner of the 2010 The Cave Canem Poetry Prize Iain Haley Pollock’s poems cover the ground from a woman late to…
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Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany HarperCollins 480 pages 2001 ISBN: 9780060959616 Hans J. Massaquoi (1926-2013) This is a story of the unexpected. In Destined to Witness, Hans Massaquoi has crafted a beautifully rendered memoir—an astonishing true tale of how he came of age as a black child in Nazi Germany. The son…
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In Between: Memoir of an Integration Baby Skinner House Books (an imprint of the Unitarian Universalist Association) 2008-10-15 288 pages Product Code: 6989 ISBN-13: 978-1558965416; ISBN-10: 9781558965416 Mark D. Morrison-Reed Frank personal account of growing up black during the era of the civil rights movement. The author wrestles with racism, the death of Martin Luther…
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‘Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families’ traveling exhibit bridges diverse backgrounds Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2011-05-22 Lenika Cruz Starting this evening, UCLA will act as a home for 20 families, each with a story to tell about being multiracial Americans. While these families will not be physically present, their photographs and…