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: June 2013
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‘One Drop of Love’ (Theatre Review) The Chic of Domesticity: A Woman-to-Women Conversation on All Facets of Life – Fashion – Politics – Religion – Style – Travel 2013-06-29 Jennifer Vaughn-Estrada Plans free for tomorrow evening? I recommend catching the final performance of One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for Her Father’s Racial Approval…
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Miracle Fruit Tupelo Press 2003 86 pages 9.1 x 6 x 0.3 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-0-9710310-8-1 Aimee Nezhukumatathil As three worlds collide, a mother’s Philippines, a father’s India, and the poet’s contemporary America, the resulting impressions are chronicled in this collection of incisive and penetrating verse. The writer weaves her words carefully into a wise…
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‘Soy Yo!’: Play explores being multi-racial in a world where race matters St. Louis Beacon 2013-06-26 Nancy Fowler Parents, can you even imagine being accused of kidnapping your own children? It happened to Shari LeKane-Yentumi of University City. The reason was race. She’s white, her husband’s black. Their three children are both; and in our…
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Solo Show at 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival Examines Notions of Racial Identity Contact: Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni Email: onedropoflove@gmail.com Website: http://www.onedropoflove.com/ May 2013 (Los Angeles, Calif.) — When actress and playwright Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni married the love of her life in 2006, her father did not walk her down the aisle. In fact, he declined to…
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Podcast interview with Paisley Rekdal, poet and 2013 UNT Rilke Prize winner University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 2013-04-29 Julie K. West, Publications Specialist Office of Research and Economic Development Poet Paisley Rekdal is the 2013 recipient of the University of North Texas Rilke Prize. The $10,000 award, named for the great German poet, Rainer…