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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Fredrick D. Kakinami Cloyd’s debut, “Dream of the Water Children: Memory and Mourning in the Black Pacific,” is a lyrical and compelling memoir about a son of an African American father and a Japanese mother who has spent a lifetime being looked upon with curiosity and suspicion by both sides of his ancestry and the…
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“Adventures in Black and White,” a memoir-travelogue, was first published by world-renown child prodigy Philippa Duke Schuyler in 1960. In this first revised edition of “Adventures in Black and White” since its initial publication, scholar Tara Betts provides a critical introduction to this updated volume, including minor edits, and annotations of the original text.
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Preview of DREAM OF THE WATER CHILDREN by Wendy Cheng 2Leaf Press: A Small Press with Big Ideas! New York, New York 2016-01-18 Wendy Cheng, Assistant Professor School of Social Transformation Faculty Arizona State University A Black-Japanese Amerasian reflects on life in the present, with the traces of wars and their aftermaths. In Dream of…