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Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Inanna Publications
\n<\/a>November 2010
\n250 pages
\nISBN-10: 1926708148
\nISBN-13: 978-1-926708-14-0<\/p>\n

Edited by<\/p>\n

Adebe De Rango-Adem<\/a> (Adebe D. A.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrea Thompson<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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This anthology of poetry, spoken word, fiction, creative non-fiction, spoken word texts, as well as black and white artwork and photography, explores the question of how mixed-race women in North America<\/a> identify in the twenty-first century. Contributions engage, document, and\/or explore the experiences of being mixed-race, by placing interraciality as the center, rather than periphery, of analysis. The anthology also serves as a place to learn about the social experiences, attitudes, and feelings of others, and what racial identity has come to mean today.<\/p>\n

Adebe De Rango-Adem recently completed a research writing fellowship at the Applied Research Center in New York, where she wrote for ColorLines<\/em>, America’s primary magazine on race politics. She has served as Assistant Editor for the literary journal Existere<\/em>, and is a founding member of s.t.e.p.u.p.\u2014a poetry collective dedicated to helping young writers develop their spoken word skills. Her poetry has been featured in journals such as Canadian Woman Studies<\/em>, The Claremont Review<\/em>, Canadian Literature<\/em>, and cv2<\/em>. She won the Toronto Poetry Competition in 2005 to become Toronto’s first Junior Poet Laureate, and is the author of a chapbook<\/a> entitled Sea Change<\/em> (2007). Her debut poetry collection, Ex Nihilo<\/em>, will be published in early 2010.<\/p>\n

Andrea Thompson is a performance poet who has been featured on film, radio, and television, with her work published in magazines and anthologies across Canada. Her debut collection, Eating the Seed<\/em> (2000), has been featured on reading lists at the University of Toronto and the Ontario College of Art and Design, and her spoken word CD, One<\/em>, was nominated for a Canadian Urban Music Award in 2005. A pioneer of slam poetry<\/a> in Canada, Thompson has also hosted Heart of a Poet<\/em> on Bravo tv, CiTr Radio’s spoken word show, Hearsay<\/em>. In 2008, she toured her Spoken Word\/Play Mating Rituals of the Urban Cougar<\/em> across the country, and in 2009 was the Poet of Honour at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong> (Thanks to Nicole Asong Nfonoyim)<\/p>\n