Social Science - Biracial & Multiracial Studies

In this candid and thought-provoking memoir, a millennial woman of Black and Chinese heritage reflects on the complexities of growing up with a mixed identity in the American South and beyond. From childhood memories to college experiences and a burgeoning career, Blackinese explores the...

In this candid and thought-provoking memoir, a millennial woman of Black and Chinese heritage reflects on the complexities of growing up with a mixed identity in the American South and beyond. From childhood memories to college experiences and a burgeoning career, Blackinese explores the...

The art historian, poet, and novelist close-reads images, moving and still, canonical and lesser known, that have shaped her evolving identity as an American "Mulatta" lesbian born at the end of the Civil Rights Movement in this singular blend of life-writing and cultural studies....

Author: Clare KinbergPublisher: Wayne State University PressPublished: 10/21/2025Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 7.97h x 5.11w x 0.69dISBN: 9780814352755About the AuthorClare Kinberg is the publisher and editor of the Washtenaw Jewish News, a monthly newspaper in southeast Michigan and from 1989-2011 was editor of the...

An incisive, lyrical exploration of one family's history that radically overturns American myths about race, violence, and belonging. "Fugitive Archives is a deeply moving and powerful account of America's tortured landscape of race and class, all too often hidden behind the facade of a...

29 personal essays exploring mixed identity, belonging, family, racism, community and the paradoxical ways of being in the world "An unprecedented ode to the wide range of mixed-root experiences and what is shared across difference. Required reading for anyone who has ever been asked...

A graphic memoir-in-essays examining the in-betweenness of being mixed-race and the cultural confrontations inherent to forging one's identity Who are you? What are you? And how does it feel to be you? Leise Hook was asked these intrusive questions so many times growing up...

RAW DEAL explores the theft of Native lands by squatters, speculators, unfair treaties and blatant swindles, focusing on the Indians of the Midwest and the Great Lakes.Although Indian lands were paid for with hard cash and services provided by the U.S. government, it was...

For readers of Permission to Come Home, Minor Feelings, and Pleasure Activism, an insightful guide for "hyphenates" seeking to better understand themselves and help others understand them, too. What does it mean to live a hyphenated life? So many folks are forced to toggle...

A bold vision for a Black and Indigenous future rooted in real solidarity, a future that exists beyond the confines of the liberal imagination Current advocates of reparations for slavery and land back often fail to scrutinize racial capitalism and settler colonialism, instead accepting...

One of the most pernicious and persistent myths in the United States is the association of Black skin with poverty. Though there are forty million more poor white people than Black people, most Americans, both Republicans and Democrats, continue to think of poverty--along with...

One of the most pernicious and persistent myths in the United States is the association of Black skin with poverty. Though there are forty million more poor white people than Black people, most Americans, both Republicans and Democrats, continue to think of poverty--along with...