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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1944 We Were Here: African American GIs in Dorset Lulu 2014-10-06 103 pages 5.83 wide x 8.26 tall 0.57 lbs. Paperback ISBN: 9781291278170 Louisa Adjoa Parker 1944 We Were Here: African American GIs in Dorset explores the stories of the black soldiers who came to Dorset to train for D-Day. Told through the eyes of…
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Blinking in the Light Cinnamon Press 2016-02-01 28 pages ISBN-13: 978-1910836057 Louisa Adjoa Parker A collection of confessional poems which, in starkly telling a story about a fraught pregnancy and the suicide of a man very close to the speaker’s family, evokes with powerful images and unadorned language a raw sense of contemporary life.
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‘You don’t see many of them round here’: being black in the white, rural West Country gal-dem 2016-09-05 Louisa Adjoa Parker My parents met when my dad came to the UK from Ghana in the 1960s to train as a nurse. He married my mum, and I was born in Doncaster in 1972. I don’t…
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Interview with Louisa Adjoa Parker The writer is a lonely hunter 2012-01-10 Gail Aldwin Louisa is a writer, poet and Arts Project Co-ordinator who has lived in the West Country since she was 13. Her first poetry collection, Salt-sweat and Tears was published by Cinnamon Press to critical acclaim in 2007. She has also written a book and…
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Looking back at lives of black GIs in Dorset Dorset Echo Weymouth, Dorset, England 2013-06-12 James Tourgout A NEW exhibition is highlighting the stories of black soldiers in Dorset during World War Two. It explores the lives of African American servicemen who headed to Dorset to train for D-Day and is showing at Weymouth library…
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Salt-sweat & Tears Cinnamon Press March 2007 80 pages 21 x 14 x 0.8 cm Paperback ISBN 10: 1905614187; ISBN-13: 978-1905614189 Louisa Adjoa Parker Of Ghanaian-British descent Louisa Adjoa Parker explores issues of identity, belonging, family and relationships in raw, honest, but crafted pieces. Mulatto Girl See the mulatto girl walking down country lanes and…