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: Jackie Kay
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I first met Audre in 1984, when I was 22. She told me her grandfather had been Scottish, and that I didn’t need to choose between being Scottish and being black. “You can be both. You can call yourself an Afro Scot,” she said in her New York drawl. Lorde was Whitman-like in her refusal to…
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Darling: New & Selected Poems Bloodaxe Books 2007 224 pages Paperback ISBN: 1 85224 777 0 Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing Newcastle University Humour, gender, sexuality, sensuality, identity, racism, cultural difference: when do any of these things ever come together to equal poetry? When Jackie Kay’s part of the equation. Darling brings together into…
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Interview: Jackie Kay The Journal Newcastle upon Tyne 2013-03-30 Jackie Kay is about to be read in places most writers never reach. David Whetstone spoke to her. YOU can imagine there are lots of things a writer dreams of – literary prizes, lucrative deals, maybe a film adaptation. But a different accolade has come the…
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Jackie Kay @ 5×15 5×15 2012-10-16 Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Five speakers, fifteen minutes each. True stories of passion, obsession and adventure recounted live with just two rules: no scripts and only fifteen minutes each. The Red Dust Road Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh in…
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Jackie Kay: a poetic imagining of post-racial (be)longing darkmatter: in the ruins of imperial culture ISSN: 2041-3254 Post-Racial Imaginaries [9.2] (2012-11-29) Katy Massey Jackie Kay is a prolific and well-loved writer who, though she has written in many forms, is best-known for her poetry. A mixed-race Scot who lives in the north of England, her…
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Literature and Racial Ambiguity Rodopi 2002 320 pages 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches Hardback ISBN: 978-90-420-1428-2 / 90-420-1428-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-90-420-1418-3 / 90-420-1418-0 Edited by: Teresa Hubel, Associate Professor of English Huron University College in London, Ontario Neil Brooks, Associate Professor of English Huron University College at Western University, London, Ontario Contents Neil Brooks…
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Jackie Kay wins Scottish Book of the Year The Edinburgh Reporter 2011-08-26 Creative Scotland is delighted to announce that award winning poet and author, Jackie Kay, has been awarded the 2011 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year, in partnership with Creative Scotland, for her autobiography Red Dust Road. Jackie Kay received her £30,000…
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Refusal to be defined by single categories: Lorde in 1983.
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Staging Black Feminisms: Identity, Politics, Performance Palgrave an (imprint of Macmillan) May 2007 256 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches ISBN: 978-1-4039-8640-5, ISBN10: 1-4039-8640-1 Lynette Goddard, Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Royal Holloway, University of London Staging Black Feminisms explores the development and principles of black British women’s plays and performance since the…