Tag: Heidi W. Durrow

  • In “Shades of Gray” Molly Littlewood McKibbin offers a social and literary history of multiracialism in the twentieth-century United States.

  • “The Beiging of America, Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the Twenty-First Century,” takes on “race matters” and considers them through the firsthand accounts of mixed race people in the United States.

  • ‘We Are Not Alone’: Festival Celebrates Multiracial America NBC News 2015-06-12 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Nearly 700 people from across the country—including artists, writers, comedians, musicians, multiracial and multicultural families—are expected to gather at the Mixed Remixed Festival on June 13 at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, to celebrate the stories and lives…

  • How Fluid Is Racial Identity? Room for Debate The New York Times 2015-06-17 Heidi W. Durrow, Novelist Amanda Kay Erekson, President MAVIN Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Professor of Law University of Iowa Nancy Leong, Associate Professor of Law University of Denver Mark Hugo Lopez, Director of Hispanic Research Pew Research Center…

  • Complicating Race or Reproducing Whiteness? Heidi Durrow and The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Gino Michael Pellegrini: Education, Race, Multiraciality, Class & Solidarity 2014-04-13 Gino Michael Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California [This is an excerpt from a paper (currently being revised) that I presented last month at the…

  • “A Future Unwritten”: Blackness between the Religious Invocations of Heidi Durrow and Zadie Smith South Atlantic Quarterly Volume 112, Number 4 (2013) pages 657-674 DOI: 10.1215/00382876-2345225 Brian Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University Race and religion were two aspects of the Western colonial project. Novelists Heidi Durrow and Zadie Smith reflect two related…

  • Novelist Heidi Durrow Looks Up [Book Review] Hot Metal Bridge: a literary magazine Published by the University of Pittsburgh 2010-02-15 Liberty Hultberg The Girl who Fell from the Sky, by Heidi W. Durrow (Algonquin, January 2010) Durrow’s debut novel explores modern multiracial identity within one mixed girl’s experience of love, family, class, and beauty in…

  • Canon Fodder: ‘The Girl Who Fell From the Sky’ and the Problem of Mixed-Race Identity Specter Magazine: A Brooklyn-based Art Journal Ghost+Blog (August 2011) 2011-08-18 Summer McDonald Baseball. Apple pie. Buying items in bulk. Buffets. All help create Americana, that itchy, dry-clean only fabric that bonds even the most disparate of us. As fixated as Americans…

  • The Girl Who Fell from the Sky Explains What it Is to Be Mixed and Happy The Huffington Post 2010-05-04 Marcia Dawkins, Clinical Assistant Professor of Communications University of Southern California, Annenberg Professors Ravinder Barn and Vicki Harman from the Centre for Criminology and Sociology at Royal Holloway, University of London are carrying out a…

  • Heidi Durrow discusses her novel “The Girl Who Fell From the Sky” The Leonard Lopate Show WNYC Radio (93.9 FM or 820 AM) Friday, 2010-05-14, 12:00-14:00 EDT (16:00-18:00Z) Leonard Lopate, Host Heidi W. Durrow, Author Destruction, Restoration We’ll look into how Europe’s economic problems are creating political problems—we’ll check in on the state of the…