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 2019
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“Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery” concerns the Eagen family of New Orleans and its immediate vicinity, Irish Catholics whose lineage is made more colorful, if not more difficult, by containing within it a black matriarch who mysteriously, in midlife, disappears, leaving her husband and small son to continue their lives without her.
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Mike Drolet looks at attitudes towards mixed-race relationships in Canada.
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A luminous and heartbreaking tale of identity, devotion, and regret
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“Passing Interest. Racial Passing in US Novels, Memoirs, Television, and Film, 1990-2010” provides relevant, meaningful information because of its scope and range. Julie Cary Nerad, the editor and the other contributors, should be praised for the book, which features innovative contributions offering new and useful analysis of literature and film from varying critical perspectives.
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Fear of a Multiracial Planet: Loving’s Children and the Genocide of the White Race Fordham Law Review Volume 86, Issue 6 (2018) pages 2761-2771 Reginald Oh, Professor of Law Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland, Ohio Part I analyzes the Loving decision striking down antimiscegenation laws and examines the segregationists’ justifications for antimiscegenation laws. Next, Part…
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We’re always looking for amazing people to join our team! Wether it’s a few moments of your time or dedicating a day to volunteer at our 2019 Conference, we appreciate all the help we can get.
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Meet Boo, a wild-hearted boy from the bayou land of Louisiana. Misfit, outcast, loner. Call him anything but a victim. Sissy, fairy, Jenny Woman. Son of a mixed-race Holy Ghost mother and a Cajun French phantom father.
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“Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love” is a collection whose poems approach family, politics, and romance, often through the lens of space: the vagaries of a relationship full of wonder and coldness, separation and exploration.