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: Hanif Kureishi
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“Being a writer was a counter-force to people saying I was a half-caste, a Paki, a mongrel. It was a real thing in the world, an identity. I needed to call myself a writer back then because they were calling me a fucking Paki… We are all mixed-race now – me, Obama, Tiger Woods, Lewis…
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Hanif Kureishi: ‘We’re all mixed-race now The Independent 2011-10-23 James Kidd Immigration, Islamism, multi-culturalism – as his new collected stories attests, the hottest topics of the day have long been the bedrock of Hanif Kureishi’s fiction. Just don’t get him started on the joys of ‘Big Brother’… Hanif Kureishi is, by some accounts, a hard…
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Deconstructing the Mixed-Race Experience of Passing California State University, San Marcos May 2006 172 pages Victoria Baldo Segall A Thesis Submitted for Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Literature and Writing Studies In “Beauty and the Beast: On Racial Ambiguity” Carla Bradshaw describes passing as an attempt to…
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The Buddha of Suburbia Penguin Press 1990 288 pages 5.07 x 7.83in Paperback ISBN: 9780140131680 Hanif Kureishi Karim Amir lives with his English mother and Indian father in the routine comfort of suburban London, enduring his teenage years with good humor, always on the lookout for adventure—and sexual possibilities. Life gets more interesting, however, when…