Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging

Name: Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging
Brand: Routledge
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By Nicole Stamant

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Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging provides a fresh look at the complex dialogue of race and identity in memoir, examining three generations of biracial African Americans' experiences in their autobiographies. Exploring writers from James McBride and Shirlee Taylor Haizlip to Barack Obama, Toi Dericotte, Natasha Trethway, Rebecca Walker, and Emily Raboteau, this volume explores the ways in which these memoirists refute terms regarding race and simple understandings of belonging, using their contested embodied positions as sites for narration, quest, and protest. Organized chronologically, this volume will provide readers insight into memoirs from Jim Crow America to the Civil Rights period and finally those considering the post-soul (and post-Loving v. Virginia) generation. Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging interrogates these difficult spaces surrounding identity construction, encouraging new conversations surrounding visibility of mixed-race individuals and experiences for future generations. Through archives and personal testimony, this book provides a model for interweaving theoretical and personal accounts of color in American culture to encourage discussions that transgress disciplinary boundaries in the today's dialogue.

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Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 192
Release Date:: 2022-06-23
Publication Date:: 2022-06-23
Publisher:: Routledge
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1032213795
ISBN13:: 9781032213798
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 437 g
Height:: 15.7 cm
Width:: 23.5 cm
Thickness:: 1.5 cm

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