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: April 2015
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The Love Wife: A Novel Vintage Books 2005-10-11 400 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4000-7651-2 Gish Jen From the massively talented Gish Jen comes a barbed, moving, and stylistically dazzling new novel about the elusive nature of kinship. The Wongs describe themselves as a “half half” family, but the actual fractions are more complicated, given Carnegie’s Chinese…
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Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics by Lundy Braun (review) Configurations Volume 23, Number 1, Winter 2015 pages 127-130 DOI: 10.1353/con.2015.0000 Lindsey Andrews, Visiting Scholar of English Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Braun, Lundy, Breathing Race into…
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The Perfect Struggle: MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry On Being Okay With Making Mistakes Vibe 2015-03-27 Shenequa Golding Melissa Harris-Perry In the history of high school drama, nerds tend to get the short end of the stick. While preferring to keep their noses buried in books, the academically zealous usually opt out of Mean Girl gossip and…
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Little White Lie Apple iTunes 2015-03-31 USA 01:06:00 Lacey Schwartz Also available via Amazon. Filmmaker Lacey Schwartz grew up in a typical upper middle class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents and a strong sense of her identity, despite occasional remarks from those around her who wondered how a white girl could have…
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Now is the time for a mixed-race dialogue The Puget Sound Trail University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington 2015-03-27 Angelica Spearwoman Conversations about race both on and off campus have been going on for a while. On campus, a new dialogue about mixed race has started. In navigating the many complexities of race, people of…
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The Undertaker’s Daughter University of Pittsburgh Press October 2011 104 pages 6 x 9 ISBN: 9780822962007 Toi Derricotte, Professor of English University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania View the Table of Contents here. Read a selection from the book here.
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Yes, the new ‘Daily Show’ host is black. And he’s spent his career making fun of African Americans. The Washington Post 2015-03-31 Wendy Todd, Social Media Coordinator St. Louis Public Radio, St. Louis, Missouri So much for that “fresh perspective” on race. News that Trevor Noah would replace Jon Stewart as the new host of…
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The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey W. W. Norton & Company June 1999 208 pages 5.1 × 8 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-31901-9 Toi Derricotte, Professor of English University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The Black Notebooks is one of the most extraordinary and courageous accounts of race in this country, seen through the eyes of a…
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Captivity University of Pittsburgh Press November 1989 88 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 ISBN: 9780822954224 Toi Derricotte, Professor of English University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania What are the forces that cause us to strike out and harm each other? Captivity explores the way in which the individual is held hostage by society; how the forces…
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Racial identity is not merely a matter of appearance or genetics, but is one factor combined with social and cultural experiences that have shaped each person’s racial experience. Policing how multiracial people chose to identify neglects our right to understand the experiences that we feel best reflect ourselves. Audrey Majors, “Redefining — by not defining…