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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Month: December 2010
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Imitation of Life Duke University Press 2004 (Originially published in 1933) 352 pages 6 b&w photos, 1 line drawing Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-3324-1 Fannie Hurst (1889–1968) Edited by: Daniel Itzkovitz, Associate Professor of American Literature and Culture Stonehill College, North Easton, Massachusetts A bestseller in 1933, and subsequently adapted into two beloved and controversial films, Imitation…
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U.S. more diverse than ever: Census The Toronto Star 2010-12-23 Timothy R. Homan Bloomberg News WASHINGTON—The ethnic makeup of the world’s largest economy will be increasingly diverse, with more mixed-race Americans, according to the head of the U.S. Census Bureau. “This is the decade of Tiger Woods and Barack Obama, where we talked about race…
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Les Enfants de la colonie: Les métis de l’Empire français entre sujétion et citoyenneté [Book Review] H-France Review (Society for French Historical Studies) Volume 8, Number 162 (November 2008) pages 654-657 Marie-Paule Ha The University of Hong Kong Emmanuelle Saada, Les Enfants de la colonie: Les métis de l’Empire français entre sujétion et citoyenneté. Paris: Editions…
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Identity, Discrimination and Violence in Bessie Head’s Trilogy University of South Africa November 2002 71 pages Corwin Luthuli Mhlahlo Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the subject of English This dissertation seeks to explore the perceived intricate relationship that exists between constructed identity, discrimination and violence…
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Author Interview: Neela Vaswani Sarabane Books 2010-07-19 The lovely Neela Vaswani takes a moment to chat with us about her new book, You Have Given Me a Country, out August 15 [2010]. Your previous book, Where the Long Grass Bends, was a collection of short stories with a strongly mythic cast, and your memoir is…
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Where The Long Grass Bends Sarabande Books 2004-01-01 192 pages 9 x 6 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-889330-96-9 Neela Vaswani, Teacher in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program Spalding University Debut collection from a lyrical writer of Indian and Irish descent. Fervent. Lyrical. Animistic. Incantatory… Where the Long Grass Bends succumbs to no summary. It is…