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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A Feather on the Breath of God: A Novel Picador 2005 (Originally published in 1995) 192 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780312422738; ISBN10: 0312422733 Sigrid Nunez A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project…
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Half-Blood Blues Picador (an imprint of Macmillan) 2011-09-03 304 pages 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.9 in Cloth ISBN:9780887627415 Paperback ISBN: ISBN: 9781250012708 Esi Edugyan Winner of the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Paris, 1940. A brilliant jazz musician, Hiero, is arrested by the Nazis and never heard from again. He is twenty years old. He is a…
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“My father is black and my mother is white and my brother is a vegetable.” When Emma Boudreaux’s older brother winds up in a coma after a freak accident, she loses her compass: only Bernie was able to navigate—if not always diplomatically—the terrain of their biracial identity. And although her father and brother are bound…
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‘What makes us who we are? My adoption is a story that has happened to me. I couldn’t make it up.’