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: Women: A Cultural Review
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‘Horror and beauty in rare combination’: The miscegenate fictions of Octavia butler Women: A Cultural Review Volume 7, Issue 1 (1996) pages 28-38 DOI: 10.1080/09574049608578256 Roger Luckhurst, Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature Birkbeck, University of London Octavia Butler’s work is virtually unknown, and yet her ten novels and one short story collection constitute an…
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Double Consciousness in the Work of Helen Oyeyemi and Diana Evans Women: A Cultural Review Volume 20, Issue 3 (December 2009) pages 277-286 DOI: 10.1080/09574040903285735 Pilar Cuder-Domnguez, Associate Professor University of Huelva, Spain The first novels published by Helen Oyeyemi and Diana Evans feature twins of mixed-race parentage—a Nigerian mother and an English father—growing up…