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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Double Consciousness in the Work of Helen Oyeyemi and Diana Evans Women: A Cultural Review Volume 20, Issue 3 (December 2009) pages 277-286 DOI: 10.1080/09574040903285735 Pilar Cuder-Domnguez, Associate Professor University of Huelva, Spain The first novels published by Helen Oyeyemi and Diana Evans feature twins of mixed-race parentage—a Nigerian mother and an English father—growing up…
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Go-Betweens and the Colonization of Brazil: 1500-1600 University of Texas Press 2005 6 x 9 in. 391 pp., 20 figures, 11 maps, 2 tables ISBN: 978-0-292-71276-8 Alida C. Metcalf, Harris Masterson, Jr. Professor of History Rice University, Houston, Texas Doña Marina (La Malinche) …Pocahontas …Sacagawea—their names live on in historical memory because these women bridged…
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Sugar & Slate Planet Books January 2002 192 pages ISBN-10: 0954088107 ISBN-13: 978-0954088101 8.1 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches Charlotte Williams, Professor of Social Work Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year, 2003 A mixed-race young woman, the daughter of a white Welsh-speaking mother and black father…
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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…