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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Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins Broadview Press 2016-05-04 (Originally Published in 1894) 304 pages 5½” x 8½” Paperback ISBN: 9781554812660 Mark Twain Edited by: Hsuan L. Hsu, Associate Professor of English University of California, Davis The two narratives published together in The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins are…
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Artist Turns Racist Flirtations on Tinder Into Compelling Look at Race and Sex The Root 2016-05-13 Demetria Lucas D’Oyley Phoebe Boswell Source: phoebeboswell.com She Matters: Inspired by James Baldwin’s “Stranger in a Village,” Phoebe Boswell was interested in exploring the perceptions of black women in predominantly white spaces. Over the weekend I swung by the…
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Marlene Daut tackles the complicated intersection of history and literary legacy in her book “Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865” (Liverpool University Press, 2015). She not only describes the immediate political reaction to the Haitian Revolution, but traces how writers, novelists, playwrights, and scholars…
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Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority The New Press January 2016 272 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-62097-115-4 Steve Phillips A New York Times bestseller, Brown Is the New White takes an unvarnished look at the history of whites and people of color…
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Marvin Rees Becomes UK’s First Elected Black Mayor The Voice 2016-05-14 Marc Wadsworth ‘I’m the descendant of Jamaican slaves. Now I’m mayor of Bristol,’ Rees tells The Voice BRISTOL’S NEW mayor has not only changed the face of the city after winning a huge victory but is also promising a new and inclusive way of…
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Italy Must Confront Its Past to Stave Off the Far-Right Diplomatic Courier: A Global Affairs Media Network 2016-04-13 Fasil Amdetsion, Senior Policy and International Legal Adviser Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia This year’s seasonal springtime rise in temperatures is expected to deepen Europe’s refugee crisis by bringing about a significant rise in the number…
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“Race” and Science The Common Reader: A Journal of The Essay 2016-04-19 Garland Allen, Professor Emeritus of Biology Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri A new book traces the complicated legacy of race’s biological conceptions. Michael Yudell; J. Craig Venter (fore.), Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014)…