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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“A Future Unwritten”: Blackness between the Religious Invocations of Heidi Durrow and Zadie Smith South Atlantic Quarterly Volume 112, Number 4 (2013) pages 657-674 DOI: 10.1215/00382876-2345225 Brian Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University Race and religion were two aspects of the Western colonial project. Novelists Heidi Durrow and Zadie Smith reflect two related…
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“I Want to be Nothing”. Challenging Notions of Culture, Race and Identity Studia Humanistyczne AGH Volume 10, Issue 2 (2011) pages 75-83 Agata Lubowicka University of Gdansk, Poland This article tackles the issue of “hyphenated identities” in Heidi W. Durrow’s novel The Girl Who Fell from the Sky (2010), whose main topic is growing up…
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Heidi Durrow~The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Into Our Hearts Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-08-28, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Heidi W. Durrow, Author On Today’s episode of Mixed Race Radio, we will meet author, speaker, and visionary, Heidi Durrow. Heidi is the New York Times best-selling author of The…
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Well, I would say I consider myself more black than white, but more biracial than anything else… …My identity is biracial. But I say that I’m more black than white because for a lot of biracial people I think this sort of an attempt to balance both parts of their heritage with equal weight. In…