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: Toi Derricotte
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Thomas Chatterton Williams, who belongs to the hip-hop generation of multiculturalism and diversity, is willing to risk being a throwback in his memoir/essay “Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race.”
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The Undertaker’s Daughter University of Pittsburgh Press October 2011 104 pages 6 x 9 ISBN: 9780822962007 Toi Derricotte, Professor of English University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania View the Table of Contents here. Read a selection from the book here.
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The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey W. W. Norton & Company June 1999 208 pages 5.1 × 8 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-31901-9 Toi Derricotte, Professor of English University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The Black Notebooks is one of the most extraordinary and courageous accounts of race in this country, seen through the eyes of a…
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Captivity University of Pittsburgh Press November 1989 88 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 ISBN: 9780822954224 Toi Derricotte, Professor of English University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania What are the forces that cause us to strike out and harm each other? Captivity explores the way in which the individual is held hostage by society; how the forces…