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  • Waking from Mixed Dreams

    Waking from Mixed Dreams Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2015-02-26 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim-Hara Let me begin, if I may, by introducing this rather belated post with the powerful words of some scholars, poets, writers, and activists to set our scene: “American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than…

  • What My Mother Gave Me

    What My Mother Gave Me Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2012-09-27 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim “To lose your mother was to be denied your kin, country, and identity. To lose your mother was to forget your past.” —Dr. Saidiya Hartman I am the spitting image of my mother. Three years ago I learned the…

  • The Hypervisible Man: Obama as the First Black, Mixed-Race, Asian American and now Gay President

    The Hypervisible Man: Obama as the First Black, Mixed-Race, Asian American and now Gay President Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2012-05-24 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim “I have always sensed that he [Obama] intuitively understands gays and our predicament—because it so mirrors his own. And he knows how the love and sacrifice of marriage can…

  • Generation Mix? A Statement of Purpose

    Generation Mix? A Statement of Purpose Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2011-06-13 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim Call it a quarter-life crisis. A change in the winds, perhaps. Maybe it’s my sad stack of rejection letters from graduate schools. Whatever the case may be, of late, I’ve been having a bit of an intellectual, (even…

  • Mixed Dreams: Exploring “Multi” Experiences in the U.S.

    Mixed Dreams: Exploring “Multi” Experiences in the U.S. EXCO (Experimental College) Spring 2011 Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio Nicole Asong Nfonoyim The experiences and identities of mixed-race people in the United States have often been marginalized if not rendered invisible, silenced and subsumed under the dominant black-white binary. While mixed identities have been part of U.S.…

  • Containing Multitudes

    Containing Multitudes Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2011-02-21 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim “Communities had to be created, fought for, tended like gardens. They expanded or contracted with the dreams of men– and in the civil rights movement those dreams had seemed large. In the sit-ins, the marches, the jailhouse songs, I saw the African-American…

  • Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out

    This anthology of poetry, spoken word, fiction, creative non-fiction, spoken word texts, as well as black and white artwork and photography, explores the question of how mixed-race women in North America identify in the twenty-first century.

  • Mixed Is/Mixed Ain’t

    Mixed Is/Mixed Ain’t Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2010-08-09 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim, Assistant Director, Multicultural Resource Center and Africana Community Coordinator Oberlin College …As someone who has never passed as anything other than black (and maybe a lil’ somethin’ else from time to time, but always black), I was surprised to find just how…