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This, That, Both, Neither: The Badging Of Biracial Identity In Young Adult Realism

This, That, Both, Neither:  The Badging Of Biracial Identity In Young Adult Realism | biracial literature | Scoop.it
By Sarah Hannah Gómez, Graduate Student, School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College Editor’s Note: This, That, Both, Neither was accepted for the peer reviewed paper session at YALS...
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Former poet laureate talks life experience - University of Delaware Review

Former poet laureate talks life experience - University of Delaware Review | biracial literature | Scoop.it
Former poet laureate talks life experience
University of Delaware Review
This prompted her to do research, which illuminated the violinist as Bridgetower, a mixed-race prodigy. The movie, Dove said, seemed like ...
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Harmony Holiday On Finding Poetry In Her Biracial Roots - WFAE

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Harmony Holiday On Finding Poetry In Her Biracial Roots
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In celebration of National Poetry Month, Weekend Edition is hearing from young poets about what poetry means to them.
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Taliesin meets the vampires: Classic Literature: Blood of the Vampire

Taliesin meets the vampires: Classic Literature: Blood of the Vampire | biracial literature | Scoop.it
Classic Literature: Blood of the Vampire. Author: Florence Marryat First published: 1897. Edition edited by: Greta Depledge Contains spoilers. The Blurb: Harriet Brandt is the daughter of a mad scientist and a mixed-race ...
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Friendship across racial divide - The Star Online

Friendship across racial divide - The Star Online | biracial literature | Scoop.it
Friendship across racial divide
The Star Online
Mutch also draws attention to the position of mixed race people during this period.
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What We're Reading | Tin House

What We're Reading | Tin House | biracial literature | Scoop.it
Composed of sections that don't so much tell stories as provide glimpses into the home life of a pack of mixed-race brothers, this short novel nonetheless comes together as an overall narrative and packs a heartbreaking ...
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte ... - Paste Magazine

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte ... - Paste Magazine | biracial literature | Scoop.it
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte ...
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Dumas's blackness—actually he claimed mixed African and European origins—was of course no secret during his lifetime.
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The Blasian Narrative: For the Last Day of Black History Month....

The Blasian Narrative: For the Last Day of Black History Month.... | biracial literature | Scoop.it
For those of you who've been reading the Narrative since the ancient days, you'll remember her; she penned Gold Mountain, a romantic Blasian novella published in honor of Black History Month, 2010.
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InCultureParent | A Multicultural Book for Mixed Race Kids

InCultureParent | A Multicultural Book for Mixed Race Kids | biracial literature | Scoop.it
A great book for multiracial kids that answers that question, why don't I look like you?
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Aliette de Bodard » Blog Archive » Mixed-race people in SFF

Aliette de Bodard » Blog Archive » Mixed-race people in SFF | biracial literature | Scoop.it
OK, because I've seen one too many %%% storylines about mixed-race people in fiction (expanded for SFF to include the children of humans and aliens/magical creatures, etc.). For your information: We are not psychopaths, ...
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Thoughts on Theses: Jessica Levine - Amherststudent

Thoughts on Theses: Jessica Levine
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Finding out that there is a significant body of literature addressing biracial or mixed-race people of Asian descent has also been interesting.
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Colours of conflict - The Age

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Colours of conflict
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This account of the mixed-race children of Japan, following the occupation by the Americans and other Allied nations after World War II, chronicles deeply troubling events in which Australians played a major role.
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The Hunt for Zion - Daily Beast

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The Hunt for Zion
Daily Beast
The daughter of an interracial couple—her father is African-American; her mother of Irish descent—the author has already spent a lifetime grappling with other people's perceptions.
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A Spy In The House Of Rumour: Jake Arnott Interviewed - The Quietus

A Spy In The House Of Rumour: Jake Arnott Interviewed
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He was mixed race; he grew up in Alexandria, had this strange colonial existence there. ....
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Nia King: Web Comics for the Queer Set | Lambda Literary

Nia King: Web Comics for the Queer Set | Lambda Literary | biracial literature | Scoop.it
Growing up as a Queer, Black/Lebanese/Jewish woman, King is more than adept and equipped to author a comic calling on the life experiences of two queer people and their interracial relationship. The tagline for the King's ...
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Where tragic mulatta and muse collide - N.C. State University Technician Online

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Where tragic mulatta and muse collide
N.C. State University Technician Online
The tragic mulatta figure, a female with one black and one white parent, is a transnational African and Anglo-Saxon mixed race woman who became a cultural phenomenon.
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Lineup for Hapa Japan 2013 - The Rafu Shimpo

Lineup for Hapa Japan 2013 - The Rafu Shimpo | biracial literature | Scoop.it
Lineup for Hapa Japan 2013 The Rafu Shimpo Hapa Japan 2013, a festival celebrating mixed-race and mixed-roots Japanese people and culture, will be presented this week in Los Angeles by the Hapa Japan Database Project and the USC Center for Japanese...
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Asian American Literature Fans – Megareview for March 8, 2013

Asian American Literature Fans – Megareview for March 8, 2013 | biracial literature | Scoop.it
Asian American Literature Fans – Megareview for March 8, 2013 In this post, reviews of Veera Hiranandani's The Whole Story of Half a Girl (Delacorte Press, 2012); Joël Barraquiel Tan's type O negative (Red Hen Press, 2009) and Ching-in Chen's The...
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Danzy Senna - Mixed Race Studies

Danzy Senna - Mixed Race Studies | biracial literature | Scoop.it
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience. ... What compelled you to write and publish this personal narrative? A: I was intrigued by this mystery of my father's mother, a black woman from the South who was ...
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Mixed, But Not Mixed Up: Biracial Characters in YA Lit | The Hub

Mixed, But Not Mixed Up: Biracial Characters in YA Lit | The Hub | biracial literature | Scoop.it
I'm not that far past being a teen myself, but as someone who is biracial, I think today's YA audience is a bit luckier than I am when it comes to finding someone who shares their background in a novel.
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The Bone People: A Novel (Hardcover Reissue) - Mixed Race Studies

The Bone People: A Novel (Hardcover Reissue) - Mixed Race Studies | biracial literature | Scoop.it
This again leads us to the notion that racialised harmony is a myth when it comes to analysing the growth of black mixed heritage persons as being synonymous with racial progress in society.
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San Jose author Jonathan R. Miller's thrillers 'write himself free' - San Jose Mercury News

San Jose author Jonathan R. Miller's thrillers 'write himself free' - San Jose Mercury News | biracial literature | Scoop.it
San Jose author Jonathan R. Miller's thrillers 'write himself free'
San Jose Mercury News
By night, he pens page-turning fictional thrillers inspired by his experiences as a biracial man.
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Fugard's Blood Knot Still Resonates - BU Today

Fugard's Blood Knot Still Resonates - BU Today | biracial literature | Scoop.it
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Fugard's Blood Knot Still Resonates
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Athol Fugard's Blood Knot, a play set in South Africa's apartheid era about two biracial brothers, one fairer skinned than the other, hit a raw nerve when it premiered in Johannesburg in 1961.
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Zora Howard – Biracial Hair – poetry, spoken word, race | DJ Academe

Zora Howard – Biracial Hair – poetry, spoken word, race | DJ Academe | biracial literature | Scoop.it
'Slit my wrists, my blood does not excrete in black and white' prophesizes 13-year old Zora in her poem entitled 'Bi-Racial Hair' which was performed live in front of 1500 of her peers and adult allies at the 2006 Urban Word ...
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Essays by Liang '92 Published in Academic Journal, Anthology - Wesleyan Connection (blog)

Essays by Liang '92 Published in Academic Journal, Anthology - Wesleyan Connection (blog) | biracial literature | Scoop.it
Wesleyan Connection (blog) Essays by Liang '92 Published in Academic Journal, Anthology Wesleyan Connection (blog) Her essay, “Transforming Three Sisters, A Hapa Family in Chekov's Modern Classic,” was included in the academic journal Asian...
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