Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
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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: Natasha Trethewey
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A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy
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U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-14) and Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16) Natasha Trethewey New Letters On The Air 2016-02-12 Catalog Number: 20160212 Angela Elam, Producer/Host In the first part of this interview, Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16), Natasha Trethewey talks about her work that deals with history, racism, and family, including her first creative non-fiction book, Beyond Katrina:…
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Natasha Trethewey Reactions The Arc of the Universe Bends Towards Justice The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio 2015-04-02 Caitlin Ziegert Mccombs Natasha Trethewey, a Pulitzer prize winner and past Poet Laureate of the United States, came to visit and read some of her poetry for an audience much too large for Severance 09. After listening…
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Poet Natasha Trethewey Explores Public and Personal Histories of Race in America The Aspen Institute 2015-01-13 Caroline Tory, Program Coordinator Aspen Words, Aspen Colorado On a recent winter night, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey addressed an Aspen Words audience in Aspen, CO, on the intersection between art and activism. “[I am] a poet interested not…
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Natasha Trethewey Presents Final Lecture as U.S. Poet Laureate, May 14 News from the Library of Congress Library of Congress 2014-04-17 Natasha Trethewey will conclude her tenure as the 19th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress with an evening lecture in the Coolidge Auditorium on May 14. The lecture will start…
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Natasha Trethewey Links History to Poetry at Convocation Fearless and Loathing: Oberlin’s Independent Student Website 2014-04-19 Zoey Memmert-Miller Natasha Trethewey, the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States spoke in Finney Chapel for the third convocation of the spring semester. She read poetry from throughout her career and spoke on the ways she understands history…
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United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966) describes her mode as elegiac. Although the loss of her murdered mother informs each book, Trethewey’s range of forms and subjects is wide.
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Some Thoughts on Biracialism and Poetry Boston Review 2013-06-13 Paisley Rekdal, Associate Professor of English University of Utah To be a biracial and female writer might suggest one of two things: first, that my gender and race are the subject matter of my work or, second, that the forms of my writing reflect my identity.…