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: Wayde Compton
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Guest Shot: Vancouver viaducts removal clears way to honour Hogan’s Alley Vancouver Metro News 2016-11-10 Wayde Compton Vancouver writer Wayde Compton (Ayelet Tsabari/Submitted) Removal of the 1960s downtown infrastructure a chance to create a gathering space, an archive, for future black communities, argues Wayde Compton Last year, Vancouver City Council voted to take the Georgia…
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“After Canaan,” the first nonfiction book by acclaimed Vancouver poet Wayde Compton, repositions the North American discussion of race in the wake of the tumultuous twentieth century. It riffs on the concept of Canada as a promised land (or “Canaan”) encoded in African American myth and song since the days of slavery.
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With a roster of acclaimed fiction writers, Mixed shatters expectations of what it means to be multiracial.