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: Michelle Carla Cliff
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A brilliant Jamaican-American writer takes on the themes of colonialism, race, myth, and political awakening through the experiences of a light-skinned woman named Clare Savage. The story is one of discovery as Clare moves through a variety of settings – Jamaica, England, America – and encounters people who affect her search for place and self.
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Journey into Speech-A Writer between Two Worlds: An Interview with Michelle Cliff African American Review Volume 28, Number 2, Black Women’s Culture Issue (Summer, 1994) pages 273-281 DOI: 10.2307/3041999 Opal Palmer Adisa, Professor of Creative Writing California College of the Arts Among the subjects Jamaican born writer Michelle Cliff explores in her writings are ancestry,…
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Michelle Cliff, Who Wrote of Colonialism and Racism, Dies at 69 The New York Times 2016-06-18 William Grimes Michelle Cliff sometime in the 1980s. In 1975, she met the poet Adrienne Rich, who became her partner and died in 2012. Michelle Cliff, a Jamaican-American writer whose novels, stories and nonfiction essays drew on her multicultural…