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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Racial Identity Choice and its Consequences: A Study on Elizabeth Alexander’s Race Annual International Conference on Language and Literature Medan, Indonesia 2020-11-04 through 2020-11-05 Published 2021-03-11 Pages 17-27 DOI: 10.18502/kss.v5i4.8661 Nur Saktiningrum Department of English Gadjah Mada University of Yogyakarta, Indonesia Race, as people understand it, is something that you were born with. One was…
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Tamarind Sky, a Novel Inanna 2020-10-15 412 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-77133-733-5 ePUB ISBN: 978-1-77133-734-2 PDF ISBN: 978-1-77133-736-6 Thelma Wheatley When British immigrant Selena Jones marries Aidan Gilmor, a Sinhalese-Eurasian — part British — from Sri Lanka in the 1960s in Toronto, a passionate clash of culture ensues. Selena’s mother in Wales is horrified when Selena…
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A powerful tale of violence, grief, resilience, and transformation, told in the voice of Janet Gallant, transcribed and lineated as a long poem by Sharon Thesen, The Wig-Maker gathers and weaves together themes and incidents that accumulate toward “the moan” of racism, sexual abuse, maternal abandonment, suicide, mental illness, and addiction.
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The Washington Post talked to Terrell and Murray about what it was like to work on “The Personal Librarian” when so much of the world was falling apart.
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J.P. Morgan’s librarian hid her race. A novel imagines the toll on her. The Christian Science Monitor 2021-06-29 Heller McAlpin, Correspondent Library of Congress Belle da Costa Greene, shown in 1929, curated rare books for mogul J.P. Morgan. She was the first director of the Morgan Library. Some books leave you wondering why the author…
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A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white in order to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict, and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray.
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The author of “Speak, Okinawa” talks about learning her family history, writing from guilt, and questioning her father’s values.
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Harry Pace started the first major Black-owned record label in the U.S., but his achievements went mostly unnoticed until recently, when his descendants uncovered his secret history.
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Black Swan Blues: The Hard Rise & Brutal Fall of America’s First Black-owned Record Label PlanetSlade.com 2021-07-03 190 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1527296978 6 x 0.43 x 9 inches Paul Slade Forty years before Motown, there was Black Swan. Created by a young Black songwriter called Harry Pace, this pioneering 1920s blues label gave 14 million…