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: Chelene Knight
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I’ve spent thousands of dollars trying to turn my hair into anything but what it is: black and curly
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Chelene Knight’s debut memoir “Dear Current Occupant” (Bookt*ug) takes a closer look at childhood trauma and the uncertain idea of home. It’s a haunting, experimental, and deeply moving book which follows the author as she returns to many of the apartments she lived in as a young girl.
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“We always hear people say there are no Black people in Vancouver, but there are. I identify as a Black woman. I know there was a larger Black community in Vancouver many years ago, but people have been displaced. I definitely want to reach people who not only are of mixed ethnicity but who also…
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Chelene Knight is a Vancouver-based writer and editor. Of Black and East Indian heritage, Knight’s Dear Current Occupant mixes poetry and prose to tell a story about home and belonging, set in the 1980s and 1990s of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
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From Vancouver-based writer Chelene Knight, Dear Current Occupant is a creative nonfiction memoir about home and belonging set in the 80s and 90s of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
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As a woman of colour, having to prove my “blackness” should never be something on my list of things to accomplish. Like other marginalized people, I work in a mostly white world, which for me happens to be the Canadian literary community.
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Minelle speaks with Room magazine’s managing editor, Chelene Knight, about the local magazine and its volunteer collective.
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The Room Collective is very excited to have you on board as the new Managing Editor. How are you adjusting to the new role?
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An Interview with Poet and Room Poetry Coordinator Chelene Knight Room: Literature, Art, and Feminism Since 1975 Issue 37.4: Claiming Space (2015) Interview with Bonnie Nish Chelene Knight was born in Vancouver and is a graduate of The Writer’s Studio at SFU. She has been published in Sassafras Literary Magazine, Room, emerge 2013 and Raven…