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: Salena Godden
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Exclusive: Watch Salena Godden’s ‘Under the Pier’ The State Of The Arts 2017-01-10 Christy Cooney Leeds, United Kingdom Spoken word artist Salena Godden has kicked of 2017 with the release of a video for ‘Under the Pier’, a piece from her 2016 album LIVEwire. Shot on location in Hastings, East Sussex in November 2016, the video was filmed, directed, and…
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Event Review: Salena Godden’s #LIVEwire Album Launch Welcome to the MA in Black British Writing The world-first Masters programme in Black British literature at Goldsmiths, University of London 2016-12-09 Heather Marks Soho holds many secrets, and last night revealed one of them to be Salena Godden’s spoken word album launch at Carnesky’s Finishing School. Descending the…
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Zadie Smith’s Swing Time is a dance to the rhythms of womanhood iNews 2016-11-02 Salena Godden Zadie Smith, Swing Time (New York: Penguin Press, 2016) Swing Time is a quiet and rhythmic book. Just as the title suggests, this book swings, oscillating from past to present, like the steady rhythm of a pendulum. This is…
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From Her Dad To Her ‘Jamish’ Roots, A Poet Pieces Her Story Together All Things Considered National Public Radio 2014-12-28 Arun Rath, Host Growing up in 1970s England, Salena Godden stood out. Her mother was Jamaican and her father was an Irish jazz musician who mysteriously disappeared from her life when she was very young.…
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“Springfield Road” is a journey into childhood in the late 1970s, a time of halfpenny sweets, fish and chips in newspaper, scrumping apples and foraging for conkers. Set in the dawn of Thatcher’s Britain, it’s a salute to every curly-top, scabby knee’d, mixed-up, half-crazy kid with NHS glasses, free school dinners and hand-me- downs, as…