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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Recalling and Reimagining Vietnam: A Conversation with Genaro Kỳ Lý Smith World Literature Today 2019-08-12 Mary E. Adams, Associate Professor of English University of Louisiana, Monroe Genaro Kỳ Lý Smith was born in Nha Trang, Vietnam, and raised in California. His first book, The Land Baron’s Sun: The Story of Lý Loc and His Seven…
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The Story Of J.P. Morgan’s ‘Personal Librarian’ — And Why She Chose To Pass As White Code Switch National Public Radio 2021-08-31 Karen Grigsby Bates, Senior Correspondent Marie Benedict (left) and Victoria Christopher Murray Phil Atkins This summer on Code Switch, we’re talking to some of our favorite authors about books that taught us about…
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Defying Categories: An Interview with Hollay Ghadery White Wall Review Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2021-09-13 Rosabel Smegal and Isobel Carnegie, Managing Editors “A lot of people are saying I’m brave for writing this,” Hollay Ghadery tells us, grinning through the screen. “But I wish it wasn’t seen as so brave. I wish it was the way…
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In 2015, the Mexican state counted how many of its citizens identified as Afro-Mexican for the first time since independence. “Finding Afro-Mexico” reveals the transnational interdisciplinary histories that led to this celebrated reformulation of Mexican national identity.
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Phil Wang, the stand-up comic you may recall for his viral video spoofing a Tom Hiddleston advert, has been baring his soul, or at least some of it, in his new book “Sidesplitter.”
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Yellow Wife, A Novel Simon & Schuster2021-01-12288 pagesHardcover ISBN-13: 9781982149109Paperback ISBN-13: 9781982149116Audiobook ISBN-13: 9781797118819 (09:31:00) Sadeqa Johnson Called “wholly engrossing” by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom, this harrowing story follows an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in the most infamous slave jail in Virginia. Born on a plantation…
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She was raped by the owner of a notorious slave jail. Later, she inherited it. The Washington Post 2020-02-01 Sydney Trent, Local enterprise reporter An engraving print of the Lumpkin Slave Jail, from Corey’s “A History of the Richmond Theological Seminary.” (City of Richmond) Robert Lumpkin was one of the South’s most prolific and brutal…
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Work Of First African American Painter With International Reputation Explored Art Where You’re At National Public Radio 2021-09-07 Susan Stamberg, Special Correspondent Photograph of Henry Ossawa Tanner in 1907. Frederick Gutekunst (1831–1917)/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution I just met Henry Ossawa Tanner. Nice trick, since he died in 1937. Tanner was the first African American…
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INGRID DINEEN-WIMBERLY. The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862–1916. The American Historical Review Volume 126, Issue 2 (June 2021) pages 797–798 DOI: 10.1093/ahr/rhab307 Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor, Associate Professor of History Kent State University, Kent, Ohio Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly. The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862–1916. (Borderlands and Transcultural Studies.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,…