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: Aminatta Forna
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Like [Shikha] Dalmia, I self-identify as belonging to more than one culture. I have fought for at least a decade with newspapers about how my national and ethnic origins should be described. I reject the hyphen (the term “hyphenated identity” was first struck by Horace Kallen in his 1915 essay “Democracy Versus the Melting Pot”),…
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Your Nationalism Can’t Contain Me The Nation 2016-08-25 Aminatta Forna Aminatta Forna. Photo and Illustration by Jonathan Ring. I’ve held three passports and claimed many identities, all at once. I am the future of citizenship. Those of us who call ourselves British and were of age in 1990 will remember the Conservative politician Norman Tebbit…
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The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter’s Quest HarperCollins 2002 416 pages Hardcover ISBN: 0002570653 Paperback ISBN: 0006531261 Aminatta Forna An evening in 1974 when she was ten years old, Aminatta Forna opened the door to two men, members of the state secret police, come to take her father. A year later he…
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The Memory of Love Grove/Atlantic, Inc. January 2011 464 pages Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-1965-0 Paperback ISBN 13: 978-0-8021-4568-0 Aminatta Forna Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book Finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction An Essence Book Club Pick From the award-winning author of The Devil That Danced on the Water and Ancestor Stones…