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: Neela Vaswani
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Author Interview: Neela Vaswani Sarabane Books 2010-07-19 The lovely Neela Vaswani takes a moment to chat with us about her new book, You Have Given Me a Country, out August 15 [2010]. Your previous book, Where the Long Grass Bends, was a collection of short stories with a strongly mythic cast, and your memoir is…
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Where The Long Grass Bends Sarabande Books 2004-01-01 192 pages 9 x 6 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-889330-96-9 Neela Vaswani, Teacher in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program Spalding University Debut collection from a lyrical writer of Indian and Irish descent. Fervent. Lyrical. Animistic. Incantatory… Where the Long Grass Bends succumbs to no summary. It is…
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You Have Given Me a Country Sarabande Books 2010-08-15 208 pages 9 x 6 Paperback ISBN: 13: 978-1-932511-82-6 Neela Vaswani, Teacher in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program Spalding University You Have Given Me a Country is a mixed-genre exploration of blurred borders, identity, and what it means to be bicultural. Combining memoir,…