{"id":24647,"date":"2012-08-04T21:05:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T21:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24647"},"modified":"2013-02-09T17:32:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T17:32:25","slug":"brown-eyes-a-selection-of-creative-expressions-by-black-and-mixed-race-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24647","title":{"rendered":"Brown Eyes: A Selection of Creative Expressions by Black and Mixed Race Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.troubador.co.uk\/book_info.asp?bookid=249\" target=\"_blank\">Brown Eyes: A Selection of Creative Expressions by Black and Mixed Race Women<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.troubador.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Troubador Publishing<\/a><br \/>\n2006<br \/>\n292 pages<br \/>\n5 x 0.6 x 8 inches<br \/>\nISBN 10: 1905237146; ISBN-13: 978-1905237142<\/p>\n<p>Edited by:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nicole Moore<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.troubador.co.uk\/book_info.asp?bookid=249\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.troubador.co.uk\/image\/books\/1905237146.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Brown Eyes<\/em> is a rare collection of poetry and autobiographical writing from a diverse group of black and mixed-race women\u2014everyday women expressing themselves in their own unique and readable style. One of the first anthologies of its kind, Brown Eyes offers a fresh and challenging insight into the lives of black and mixed-race women in 21st century Britain.<\/p>\n<p>As well as being an important contribution towards Black British literature, the book celebrates, reflects upon and embraces our diverse female identities and the common-thread that unites all of us living the UK experience.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the contributions explode with energy, others speak with softness, many discuss childhood, motherhood, love, while others deal with loss and historical betrayal. The voices collected in <em>Brown Eyes<\/em> range from teenage to mature, rural and urban, from mothers and daughters, and countless others, all contributing to this anthology\u2019s diverse creativity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brown Eyes: A Selection of Creative Expressions by Black and Mixed Race Women Troubador Publishing 2006 292 pages 5 x 0.6 x 8 inches ISBN 10: 1905237146; ISBN-13: 978-1905237142 Edited by: Nicole Moore Brown Eyes is a rare collection of poetry and autobiographical writing from a diverse group of black and mixed-race women\u2014everyday women expressing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,395,11,8,1617,10,25],"tags":[11478,5457],"class_list":["post-24647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthologies","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-poetry-books","category-uk","category-women","tag-nicole-moore","tag-troubador-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}