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: Elizabeth Liang
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Who are you when you’re from everywhere and nowhere?
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TCK TALENT: Neil Aitken, Computer Gaming Whiz Kid Turned Award-Winning Poet The Displaced Nation 2015-04-29 Elizabeth (Lisa) Liang Neil Aitken (photo supplied) Elizabeth (Lisa) Liang is back with her column featuring interviews with Adult Third Culture Kids (ATCKs) who work in creative fields. Lisa herself is a prime example. A Guatemalan-American of Chinese-Spanish-Irish-French-German-English descent, she…
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Meet Elizabeth Liang from Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey Culture Shock Toolbox 2015-03-23 H. E. Rybol Elizabeth acts on stage, film, and television. A graduate of Wesleyan (after transferring from Wellesley), she is a published essayist (“Checked Baggage: Writing Unpacked,” “Transforming Three Sisters”) and has a column about creative adult TCKs at TheDisplacedNation.com. She is also…
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TCK TALENT: Gene Bell-Villada, literary critic, Latin Americanist, novelist, translator and TCK memoirist The Displaced Nation: A home for international creatives 2015-01-21 Elizabeth (Lisa) Liang Professor Gene Bell-Villada (own photo) Elizabeth (Lisa) Liang is here with her first column of 2015. For those who haven’t been following: she is building up quite a collection of…
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Transforming Three Sisters: A Hapa Family in Chekhov’s Modern Classic Asian American Literature: Discourses and Pedagogies Volume 3 (2012): Special Issue: Mixed Heritage Asian American Literature pages 130-146 Elizabeth Liang “All right, let’s agree that this town is backward and vulgar, and let’s suppose now that out of all its thousands of inhabitants there are…
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‘Alien Citizen’ delivers a raw, moving sociological odyssey The Williams Record: The Independent Student Newspaper at WIlliams College since 1887 Williamstown, Massachusetts 2014-09-24 William Walker, Staff Writer If there’s anything that students at the College love to think about, it’s identity. Indeed, the big questions about who we are, what we want to do and…
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Elizabeth Liang finds home: Performance at Williams College ’62 Center The Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield, Massachusetts 2014-09-17 Madeline Vuong, Special to Berkshires Week & Shires of Vermont WILLIAMSTOWN — “Where are you from?” It’s an easy question on the surface, but a more complicated matter if you’re Elizabeth Liang, a child of mixed-race parentage, who grew…
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Re:Membering (our memories our stories) Hapa Happy Hour: A lively discussion and celebration of the mixed heritage experience. 2014-08-04 Hosts: Rena Heinrich Hiwa Bourne Lisa Liang The ladies talk about Lisa’s succesful one woman show: Alien CItizen: An Earth Odyssey! Recorded last year (July 2013). Download the episode here.
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“Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey” Performance by Elizabeth Liang Arts at MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology Eastman Laboratories (Building 6) 2014-02-21, 18:00-20:30 EST (Local Time) Written and Performed by Elizabeth Liang Who are you when you’re from everywhere and nowhere? Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey is a funny and poignant one-woman show about growing up…