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: Penguin Random House
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From The New York Times-bestselling author of “The Mothers,” a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.
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A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, ‘Such a Fun Age’ is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.
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Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations Penguin Random House 2019-03-26 368 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780399589041 Mira Jacob Brooklyn, New York “How brown is too brown?” “Can Indians be racist?” “What does real love between really different people look like?” Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob’s half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. At first they…
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We Cast a Shadow, A Novel One World (an imprint of Penguin Random House) 2019-01-29 336 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 9780525509066 Ebook ISBN: 9780525509080 Audiobook ISBN: 9780525637363 Maurice Carlos Ruffin “You can be beautiful, even more beautiful than before.” This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga’s clinic, where anyone can get their…
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Re Jane: A Novel Pamela Dorman Books (an imprint of Penguin Random House) 2015-05-05 352 Pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0525427407 Paperback ISBN: 978-0143107941 Patricia Park For Jane Re, half-Korean, half-American orphan, Flushing, Queens, is the place she’s been trying to escape from her whole life. Sardonic yet vulnerable, Jane toils, unappreciated, in her strict uncle’s…
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When you come from a mixed race background as Paisley Rekdal does — her mother is Chinese American and her father is Norwegian– thorny issues of identity politics, and interracial desire are never far from the surface.