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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Day: March 6, 2021
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In a pair of new memoirs — “Surviving the White Gaze,” by the American cultural critic Rebecca Carroll, and “Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong,” by the British journalist Georgina Lawton — two women recount growing up as Black girls with white parents who loved them deeply but…
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Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong Harper Perennial (an imprint of Harper Collins) 2021-02-23 304 pages 5x8in Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780063009486 E-book ISBN: 9780063009493 Audiobook ISBN: 9780063009509 Georgina Lawton Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were…