The Adoption Papers |
Bloodaxe Books
1991
64 pages
21.6 x 13.9 x 0.5 cm
Paperback ISBN: 978-1852241568
Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing
Newcastle University
"Well, I've always identified myself as black... and mixed kind of simultaneously. But as far as my identity, I see my mixed-race as being part of a broader black experience, or within the African diaspora. I don't see that as a white experience or an Austrian experience, just because I see myself as a black woman or a black person within a place where it's predominantly white. So I know that whiteness is not something I'm a part of, even though my mother is white and I have a cultural background as far as my Austrian side. But, to identify as white or solely as mixed without understanding how much my black experience and my blackness plays a part in my life, to me, just personally, I couldn't do that." -Annina Chirade Kim Chakanetsa, "Being 'Mixed Race': Kira Lea Dargin and Annina Chirade," The Conversation on BBC World Service, May 11, 2015. (00:14:20-00:14:38). http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02qm960. |
The Adoption Papers |
Bloodaxe Books
1991
64 pages
21.6 x 13.9 x 0.5 cm
Paperback ISBN: 978-1852241568
Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing
Newcastle University