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: Tom Williams
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Among The Wild Mulattos And Other Tales (By Tom Williams) [NPR Review] NPR’s Book Concierge: Our Guide To 2015’s Great Reads National Public Radio 2015-12-08 Michael Schaub, book critic Produced by Nicole Cohen, Rose Friedman, Petra Mayer and Beth Novey Designed by Annette Elizabeth Allen, David Eads, Becky Lettenberger and Wes Lindamood Identity, both racial…
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We Must Be Alive: Among the Wild Mulattos & Other Tales by Tom Williams Electric Lit 2015-11-13 Rosie Clarke In his 1991 hit song, Black or White, Michael Jackson meditates on racial equality, singing, “I’m not going to spend/My life being a color.” However, Jackson’s well-documented, complicated relationship with his African American appearance speaks to…
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Identity Is At The Heart Of Brash, Essential ‘Mulattos’ National Public Radio 2015-08-07 Michael Schaub, Book Critic Williams, Tom, Among The Wild Mulattos and Other Tales (Huntsville, Texas: Texas Review Press, 2015) “Odder than two-headed calves, stranger than, Uri Geller who could bend spoons with his mind.” That’s how the narrator of “Who Among Us…
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Tom Williams: The TNB Self-Interview The Nervous Breakdown 2015-06-24 Tom Williams, Professor of English Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky You’re a hard guy to track down. I know, I know. I’m sorry. I just have a lot of obligations and duties—many roles to play. What roles? Husband, father, son, brother, department chair, mentor, friend, book…
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Set in the suburbs and cities of the Midwest, Mid-South, and Texas, these stories explore the lives of characters biracial, black, white, and all sorts of in-between. The intersections and collisions of contemporary life are in full effect here, where the distinctions between fast food and fine art, noble and naked ambitions, reality and reality…