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: Los Angeles Review of Books
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A Daughter’s Quest: On Anne Liu Kellor’s “Heart Radical” Los Angeles Review of Books 2021-11-12 Amy Reardon Anne Liu Kellor, Heart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging (Berkeley, California: She Writes Press, 2021) GROWING UP ASIAN AMERICAN in Seattle, Anne Liu Kellor struggled to understand the ache she carried inside. Her debut memoir,…
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I recently spoke with Thomas again about what has changed in the way we talk about race and identity. We also discussed the effects of the collision of social justice theories with art and institutions, and the best-selling books that are now influencing the national mood and tracing the borders of generational and ideological difference…
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When we’re young, it’s already incredibly difficult to figure out where we belong. It’s human nature to want to be liked, and sometimes we’ll do anything for approval. We’ll change the way we dress and what we listen to; we’ll code-switch our dialect depending on the people we’re with; whatever it takes to feel a…
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JOHN VERCHER’S TAUT, impressive debut crime novel, “Three-Fifths,” follows Bobby Saraceno — a mixed-race man living a lie. Saraceno has spent his life passing as a white man, raised by his racist maternal grandfather in Pittsburgh. Bobby’s kept his true self hidden from everyone, even his fellow comic book fan/best friend, Aaron, who’s just returned…
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What occasioned this new effort was the arrival of his first child, Marlow, after marrying his wife, Valentine, the white, blond-haired scion of French aristocrats. Williams fell in love with the French language as an undergraduate when a wealthy student said the word “baguette” to him, and Williams was embarrassed that he didn’t know what…
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Otis Houston: You agree that it’s important for people to see a black family in the White House, if only to demonstrate that it’s possible. Is it also important for black children to be able to see people who look like them on television, or in movies, or even in television commercials? Is there an…
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Otis Houston interviews Thomas Chatterton Williams
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A mostly white poetic establishment prevails over a patronizing culture that presents minority poets as exceptional cases — to be held at arm’s length like colonial curiosities in an otherwise uninterrupted tradition extending back through a pure and rarefied language.
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Passing and Being Passed Over in the United States Los Angeles Review of Books 2017-12-15 Kavita Das We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America By Brando Skyhorse, Lisa Page Published 10.10.2017 Beacon Press 216 Pages IN THE YEARS preceding the 2016 presidential election, the “birther” movement that had dogged Barack Obama…