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: Ruth Ozeki
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Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture Rutgers University Press 2015-05-12 256 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-7070-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-7069-3 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-7071-6 epub ISBN: 978-0-8135-7537-7 Jennifer Ann Ho, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an…
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David Palumbo-Liu interviews Ruth Ozeki Los Angeles Review of Books 2014-09-16 David Palumbo-Liu, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor; Professor of Comparative Literature and English Stanford University Where We Are for the Time Being with Ruth Ozeki Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and a Zen Buddhist priest. She is the author of three novels: My Year…
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“A Universe of Many Worlds”: An Interview with Ruth Ozeki MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Volume 38, Issue 3 (September 2013) pages 160-171 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlt028 Eleanor Ty, Professor of English and Film Studies Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada That’s what it felt like when I was growing up, like I was a…
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Writing Mixed Race Asian Americans into the Nation: Narratives of National Incorporation in the Bildungsroman and the Multiracial Movement Wesleyan University May 2013 80 pages May Lee Watase A thesis submitted to the faculty of Wesleyan University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts with Departmental Honors in American…
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Halving the Bones: A film by Ruth Ozeki Women Make Movies 1995 70 minutes Color/BW, DVD Ruth Ozeki, Filmmaker, Novelist, and Zen Buddhist Priest Skeletons in the closet? Halving the Bones delivers a surprising twist to this tale. This cleverly-constructed film tells the story of Ruth, a half-Japanese filmmaker living in New York, who has inherited…
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The Rise of Ethnic Pride for Multicultural Americans TheGuyOnSports 2013-04-13 Damien Haynes In America, race and skin color are some of the most critiqued and analyzed issues within our society. For some people, growing up of mixed race decent can either be a detriment or a blessing. It can separate you from the rest of…
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Hybrid Veggies & Mixed Kids: Ecocriticism and Race in Ruth Ozeki’s Pastoral Heartlands Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies Volume 2 (2011) pages 22-29 Melissa Eriko Poulsen Literature Department University of California, Santa Cruz This paper explores the troping of racial categories and mixed race bodies in Ruth Ozeki’s All Over Creation (2003) and My…
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English 108: Crossing Racial Boundaries in Post-Civil Rights Fiction and Film: Interracial Encounters University of California, Los Angeles Winter 2012 Caroline Streeter, Associate Professor of English This course looks at literature and film depicting interracial sexuality and mixed race identities in the post-Civil Rights era. Course materials depict individuals and communities that trouble and challenge…
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With a roster of acclaimed fiction writers, Mixed shatters expectations of what it means to be multiracial.
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Feeling Ancestral: The Emotions of Mixed Race and Memory in Asian American Cultural Productions positions: east asia cultures critique Volume 16, Number 2, Fall 2008 pages 457-482 Jeffrey Santa Ana, Assistant Professor English Department Stony Brook University The current era of war, militarism, and neocolonialism in the Pacific is a time in which capitalist expansion simultaneously…