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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Identity and racial ambiguity in Danzy Senna’s Caucasia North Carolina Central University 2015 82 pages Carole Bonita Montgomery Set in 1970s Boston, Danzy Senna’s novel, Caucasia (1998) centers around biracial Birdie Lee, whose racial identity is complex as she defines and redefines herself from her youth through young adulthood. Birdie and Cole Lee are daughters…
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Contested Identities: Racial Indeterminacy and Law in the American Novel, 1900-1942 University of Connecticut 2014-05-08 Rebecca S. Nisetich In Contested Identities, I chart the path of the legal and literary discourses on racial identity, codified by the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision and culturally ascendant in the early decades of the twentieth century. In this…
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An Artist Stands Before Her Fun House Mirror The New York Times 2016-01-06 Amanda Fortini Genevieve Gaignard, “A Golden State of Mind” installation, 2015. Credit: Eric Minh Swenson, via The Cabin LA and Diane Rosenstein LOS ANGELES — On a recent Friday afternoon, Genevieve Gaignard, a photographer, collagist and installation artist, was sitting on her…
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Mixed but not matched: Being mixed-race in America The Daily Evergreen Washington State University Pullman, Washington 2016-01-21 Sophia Stephens, Evergreen columnist The experience of being a mixed-race person in America can be described in one word – mixed. Depending on how a mixed-race person looks and is perceived, the experience of being an ethnic or…
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Jeff Chang in conversation with Adam Mansbach Kepler’s Books 1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park, California 94025-4349 Tuesday, 2015-01-26, 19:30 PST (Local Time) It’s hard to express just how cool and important Who We Be is with words alone. Jeff seems to share this sentiment when it comes to a cultural history of the idea…
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What is the Defining Divide? False Post-Racial Dogmas and the Biblical Affirmation of “Race” Black Theology Volume 13, Issue 2 (August, 2015) pages 166-188 DOI: 10.1179/1476994815Z.00000000054 Kumar Rajagopalan London Baptist Association, London, United Kingdom This essay offers a critical reflection on the challenges of addressing the concept of “race,” and whether there is a post-racial…
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This third book in the Burning Eye pamphlet series (following Sally Jenkinson’s Sweat-borne Secrets and Mairi Campbell-Jack’s “This Is A Poem…”) presents Raymond Antrobus, a poet from Hackney with a talent for plucking poetry from the mouths of ordinary people.