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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Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood Tinder Press (an imprint of Headline Publishing Group) 2022-08-18 304 pages 222 x 138 mm Hardback ISBN: 9781472284839 Kit de Waal From the award-winning author of My Name is Leon, The Trick to Time and Supporting Cast comes a childhood memoir set to become a…
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The BBC has released images for the upcoming adaptation of Kit de Waal’s award-winning novel, “My Name Is Leon.”
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De Waal’s ‘extraordinary’ memoir goes to Tinder Press The Bookseller: At the Heart of Publishing since 1858 2021-09-28 Heloise Wood, Deputy News Editor Tinder Press has landed Kit de Waal’s memoir about growing up in Birmingham in the Sixties and Seventies, Without Warning and Only Sometimes, which she described as “the story I always wanted…
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BBC One will adapt Kit de Waal’s novel “My Name is Leon” (Simon & Schuster) into a film.
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When Kit de Waal was growing up in 1970s Birmingham, no one like her – poor, black and Irish – wrote books. Forty years on, the author asks, what has changed?
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My Name Is Leon by Kit de Waal review – a touching, thought-provoking debut The Guardian 2016-06-03 Bernardine Evaristo Insight and authenticity … Kit de Waal. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian A young vulnerable boy is taken into care after his mother is no longer able to cope Kit de Waal has already garnered…
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A brother chosen. A brother left behind. And a family where you’d least expect to find one.