by Lise Funderburg | Jun 13, 2015 | Uncategorized, Word Up
When I tried to look black, it was the late 1970s and I was in England for a semester abroad. I had hair down to the middle of my back, the blonde of my birth long since turned a medium brown but the hair itself still fine and mostly straight, with more of a bend than...
by Lise Funderburg | Sep 30, 2013 | Word Up
It’s been two decades since Black, White, Other was first published, and tomorrow we mark that 20th anniversary with a new and revised ebook edition. The expanded ebook features a no-false-idols foreword from novelist Mat Johnson (Pym, Incognegro),...
by Lise Funderburg | Sep 25, 2013 | Word Up
It’s been two decades since BLACK, WHITE, OTHER: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity was first published, and this fall I mark that 20th anniversary with a new and revised ebook edition, featuring a foreword from novelist Mat Johnson (Pym,...
by Lise Funderburg | Nov 12, 2008 | Uncategorized, Word Up
Host Farai Chideya had me on today’s show to talk about race in the age of Obama. Click here to hear the segment.
by Lise Funderburg | Nov 12, 2008 | Uncategorized, Word Up
This meditation on race was originally published in Breathe magazine in 2005, but it seems to fit with at least one stream of post-election dialogue. I have a white mother and a black father. In most contexts, the white part announces itself to the world first. But I...