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: May 2016
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Anna In-Between Akashic Books 2010-08-17 352 pages Paperback IBSN: 9781936070695 Hardcover IBSN: 9781933354842 Elizabeth Nunez, Distinguished Professor of English Hunter College, the City University of New York Anna In-Between is Elizabeth Nunez’s finest achievement to date. In spare prose, with laserlike attention to every word and the juxtaposition of words to each other, Nunez returns…
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Tim Brannigan, a real black Irish republican The Irish Times Dublin, Ireland 2016-05-28 Fionola Meredith When Tim Brannigan was born his mother persuaded a doctor to declare him a stillbirth. Then she gave him to an orphanage – coming back a year later to ‘adopt’ the son she couldn’t admit she’d had. After that he…
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In Due Season Wilfrid Laurier University Press May 2016 375 pages ISBN13: 978-1-77112-071-5 Christine van der Mark (1917–1970) Afterword by: Carole Gerson, Professor of English Department Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada Janice Dowson, Lecturer in English literature and Academic Writing Simon Fraser University and University of the Fraser Valley First published in 1947, In…
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Where Are You Really From? Culture Northern Ireland 2010-04-10 Joanne Savage Race, republicanism and a mothers love in Tim Brannigan’s memoir Peggy Brannigan met Michael Ekue at a dance in Belfast in 1965. She was from Beechmount; he was a medic from Ghana. Their eyes met, they danced and sparks flew. She was gorgeous and…
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Where Are You Really From? Kola Kubes and Gelignite, Secrets and Lies – The True Story of an Extraordinary Family Blackstaff Press 2010-12-06 208 pages 5.4 x 0.5 x 8.4 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-0856408533 Tim Brannigan Tim Brannigan was born in Belfast in 1966, and spent the first year of his life in St Joseph’s…
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White is Right, But Light-Skin is the Next Best Thing Media Diversified 2016-05-23 Shane Thomas The arrival of summer means a number of things: Intermittent sunshine, music festivals where at least one white person gets their cultural appropriation on; and superhero movies. Lots of superhero movies. Box-office takings are the engine of established Western cinema,…
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Filipino Americans: Blending Cultures, Redefining Race Code Switch: Race and Identity, Remixed National Public Radio 2016-05-24 Renee Montagne, Host There are over 3 million people of Filipino heritage living in the U.S., and many say they relate better to Latino Americans than other Asian American groups. In part, that can be traced to the history…
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Recovering the Afro-Metropolis Before Windrush Christian John Høgsbjerg University of Leeds Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 13, Issue 1 (The Caribbean Radical Tradition) May 2016 Marc Matera, Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century (Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2015), 410 pp. In Black London, Marc Matera’s wide-ranging historical…