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  • “The New Kubla Khan: Mixed Race Multi-Nationalism”

    “The New Kubla Khan: Mixed Race Multi-Nationalism” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association 2009-05-24 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English, Professor, Director of African & African American Studies Stanford University This paper examines how, and to what ends, people of the “mixed race experience” are being…

  • Half-Caste and Other Poems

    ‘Half-Caste’, the title poem of this collection, is one of the set poems for GCSE English for AQA A, the largest spec with 375,000 candidates. But its influence and presence extends well beyond the ‘AQA’ schools, making John Agard one of the most popular, well-known and respected poet-performers on the schools circuit.

  • Between Camps: Nations, Cultures and the Allure of Race

    Between Camps: Nations, Cultures and the Allure of Race (Also published in the United States by Harvard University Press as Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line) Routledge 2004-08-26 424 pages Trim Size: 234X156 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-34365-7 Paul Gilroy, Anthony Giddens Professorship in Social Theory The London School of Economics and Political Science…

  • Hey Mum, What’s a Half-Caste?

    Hey Mum, What’s a Half-Caste? Independent Publishing Group April 2010 316 pages, Trade Paper, 5.75 x 8.25 35 B/W Photos ISBN: 9781921248030 (1921248033) Lorraine McGee-Sippel Compelling and honest, this memoir recounts the diffuse effects of a governmental policy that required the author’s adoptive parents to be informed of her Afro-American ancestry. Chronicling her personal search…

  • Lara

    Lara is a powerful semi-autobiographical novel-in-verse based on Bernardine Evaristo’s own childhood and family history.

  • The Identity Development of Biracial Children and Society’s Impact Thereon

    The Identity Development of Biracial Children and Society’s Impact Thereon Workshop by Francis Wardle 1989-03-04 18 pages Francis Wardle This document is taken from a workshop presentation focusing on the identity development of biracial children. The confusion of the academic community concerning this topic is emphasized. Three main aspects are examined: (1) “What is the…

  • Fluid…: Identity in the Making

    Fluid…: Identity in the Making The Vermont Connection Journal The University of Vermont 2002-07-29 Amiko Matsumoto I get the “what are you” question a lot. I usually get a warning that the question is coming: a tilt of the head, a squint of the eyes, a puzzled look as the wheels turn in my questioner’s…

  • Mixed Race… Mixed Up?

    Mixed Race… Mixed Up? Presentation at the Canadian Critical Race Conference 2003 Charito Gailling Mee Lain Ling Our workshop will explore “mixed race experience” by referring to our own experiences as mixed race women. We are particularly interested in fostering discussion that critically examines racial binaries of whiteness vs non-whiteness and how mixed race voices…

  • Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada

    Now Hill, himself a child of a black father and white mother, brings us “Black Berry, Sweet Juice, Hill: On Being Black and White in Canada,” a provocative and unprecedented look at a timely and engrossing topic.

  • Any Known Blood

    Any Known Blood Harper Collins Canada 2001-09-20 528 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780006391760; ISBN10: 0006391761 Lawrence Hill Langston Cane V is 38, divorced and working as a government speechwriter, until he’s fired for sabotaging the minister’s speech. It seems the perfect time for Langston, the eldest son of a white mother and prominent black father, to…