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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Tag: Danzy Senna
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American novelist & memoirist Danzy Senna to speak at University of Richmond English Department 2010-2011 Writers’ Series University of Richmond Richmond, Virginia Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall Wednesday, 2011-03-16 19:00 EST (Local Time) Danzy Senna is the author of two novels and a memoir that focus on issues of race, gender and cultural identity. Her debut…
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Fading to white, fading away: biracial bodies in Michelle Cliff’s Abeng and Danzy Senna’s Caucasia African American Review 2006-03-22 Michelle Goldberg However dissimilar individual bodies are, the compelling idea of common, racially indicative bodily characteristics offers a welcome short-cut into the favored forms of solidarity and connection, even if they are effectively denied by divergent…
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With a roster of acclaimed fiction writers, Mixed shatters expectations of what it means to be multiracial.
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Half + Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural Pantheon an imprint of Random House 1998-06-09 288 pages ISBN: 978-0-375-70011-8 (0-375-70011-0) Edited by Claudine C. O’Hearn As we approach the twenty-first century, biracialism and biculturalism are becoming increasingly common. Skin color and place of birth are no longer reliable signifiers of one’s identity or…
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Writing in 2010 about the Idea of Racial Identity The 17th Annual Oxford Conference for the Book (2010-03-04 through 2010-03-06) 2010-03-05, 13:30 – 15:00 EST (Local Time) Overby Center for Southern Journalism University of Mississippi Oxford, Mississippi Ted Ownby, Professor History and Southern Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture…
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‘Toubab La!’ Literary Representations of Mixed-Race Characters in the African Diaspora Cambridge Scholars Publishing July 2007 453 pages ISBN13: 9781847182319 ISBN: 1-84718-231-3 Ginette Curry, Professor of English Florida International University The book is an examination of mixed-race characters from writers in the United States, The French and British Caribbean islands (Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Lucia and…