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: Shirlee T. Haizlip
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Finding Grace: Two Sisters and the Search for Meaning Beyond the Color Line Simon & Schuster July 2007 296 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 0743200543; ISBN-13: 9780743200547 Shirlee Taylor Haizlip In her widely acclaimed, bestselling memoir, The Sweeter the Juice, Shirlee Taylor Haizlip asked us to redefine our concepts of race and family by examining her biracial…
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Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White Simon & Schuster January 1995 272 pages ISBN-10: 0671899333 ISBN-13: 9780671899332 Shirlee Haizlip The Sweeter the Juice is a provocative memoir that goes to the heart of our American identity. Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, in an effort to reconcile the dissonance between her black persona and…