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: Contemporary Women’s Writing
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Putting History in Its Place: An Interview with Bernardine Evaristo Contemporary Women’s Writing Volume 9 Issue 3 November 2015 pages 433-448 DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpv003 Jennifer Gustar, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada Bernardine Evaristo was born in Woolwich, London, to an English mother of Irish descent…
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The “Telling Part”: Reimagining Racial Recognition in Jackie Kay’s Adoptee Search Narratives Contemporary Women’s Writing Volume 9, Issue 2 (July 2015) pages 277-296 DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpu041 Pamela Fox, Professor of English Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. This article examines Jackie Kay’s earliest and renowned autobiographical poetic text, The Adoption Papers (1991), in relation to her latest narrative…