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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Derek Walcott, whose intricately metaphorical poetry captured the physical beauty of the Caribbean, the harsh legacy of colonialism and the complexities of living and writing in two cultural worlds, bringing him a Nobel Prize in Literature, died early Friday morning at his home near Gros Islet in St. Lucia. He was 87.
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Michelle Cliff, Who Wrote of Colonialism and Racism, Dies at 69 The New York Times 2016-06-18 William Grimes Michelle Cliff sometime in the 1980s. In 1975, she met the poet Adrienne Rich, who became her partner and died in 2012. Michelle Cliff, a Jamaican-American writer whose novels, stories and nonfiction essays drew on her multicultural…
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When Ancestry Search Led To Escaped Slave: ‘All I Could Do Was Weep’ Fresh Air (From WHYY in Philadelphia) National Public Radio 2016-01-18 Terry Gross, Host When she was in fifth grade, Regina Mason received a school assignment that would change her life: to connect with her country of origin. That night, she went home…
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The first fugitive slave narrative in American history