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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Poet to discuss biracialism during UHV/ABR Fall Reading Series University of Houston-Victoria Newswire Victoria, Texas 2012-09-20 Born to a Chinese mother and a Norwegian father, award-winning author Paisley Rekdal’s mixed heritage often influences her poetry and essay writing. She will share her insights about biracialism on Sept. 27 as the second speaker in the University…
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“Intimate” is a hybrid memoir and “photo album” that blends personal essay, historical documentary, and poetry to examine the tense relationship between self, society, and familial legacy in contemporary America.
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‘The Black Count,’ A Hero On The Field, And The Page Weekend Edition Saturday National Public Radio 2012-09-15 Scott Simon, Host Tom Reiss, Author The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal,and the Real Count of Monte Cristo. By Tom Reiss, 432 pp. Crown Publishers. Hardback ISBN: 978-0-307-38246-7. Gen. Thomas-Alexandre Dumas was one of the heroes of the…
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Miscegenation in the Marvelous: Race and Hybridity in the Fantasy Novels of Neil Gaiman and China Miéville University of Western Ontario 2012 120 pages Nikolai Rodrigues A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English Fantasy literature in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries uses the construction…
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Living Portraits: Carl Van Vechten’s Color Photographs of African Americans, 1939-1964 Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964), photographer, promotor of literary talent, and critic of dance, theater, and opera, had an artistic vision rooted in the centrality of the talented person. He cherished accomplishment, whether in…
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Poet Laureate Inaugural Reading Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building (ground floor) (view map) 10 First Street, SE Washington, D.C. 2012-09-13, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) Natasha Trethewey, the 19th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry of the Library of Congress, will kick off the Library’s literary season with a reading. The event is free…
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Jemmy Jock Bird: Marginal Man on the Blackfoot Frontier University of Calgary Press 2004 205 pages 16 b/w illustrations, 1 b/w photo, index Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55238-111-3 John C. Jackson Jemmy Jock Bird, the son of a Cree woman and a mixed-blood trader employed by the Hudson’s Bay Company, has become part of the mythology of…