The Beiging of America, Being Mixed Race in the 21st Century (2LP EXPLORATIONS IN DIVERSITY)
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (790 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1940939542 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 258 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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This is our racial future." --Paul Spickard, author of "Race in Mind: Critical Essays" (2015)"THE BEIGING OF AMERICA points towards the next generation of first-person narratives about the mixed race experience, including those stories that go beyond the usual hand-wringing over census boxes to consider, more pressingly, the where and when of racial justice for peoples of color, mixed or not." --Michele Elam, author of "The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium" (2011)"This disarmingly candid collection gives voice to manifold experiences of being multiracial in America, through essays that are by turns poignant, insightful, heartbreaking, thought-provoking, and essential." --Ava Dellaira, author of "Love Letters to the Dead" (2013) . Every American should read this book and heed these voi
All rights reserved.. Discrimination, instilling pride in family settings, sorting out the terms and names that people call themselves and their relatives, tackling colorism within communities of color, and childhood recollections fill these pages with compelling stories that speak to lived experiences, mapping a new ethnic terrain that transcends racial and cultural division. Schlund-Vials, Sean Frederick Forbes and Tara Betts, this collection consists of 39 poets, writers, teachers, professors, artists and activists, whose personal narratives articulate the complexities of interracial life. Schlund-Vials. While underscoring the complexity of the mixed race experience, these unadorned voices offer a genuine, poignant, enlightening and empowering message to all readers. THE BEIGING OF AMERICA, BEING MIXED RACE IN THE 21ST CENTURY, takes on race matters and considers them through the firsthand accounts of mixed race people in the United States. demographics in his 2009 The Atlantic article provocatively titled The End of White America. In it, Hsu acknowledged steadily ascending rates of interracial marriage that undergirded assertions about t
TARA BETTS is mixed race award-winning poet, author and scholar of African American and white French descent. Betts is the author of BREAK THE HABIT (2016), ARC AND HUE (2009) and the libretto, THE GREATEST: AN HOMAGE TO MUHAMMAD ALI (2010). SEAN FREDERICK FORBES is a mixed race professor, poet, and editor of Afro Latino descent. She holds a Joint Appointment as professor in the Department of English and the Asian and Asian American Studies I