Jervey Tervalon
Biographic Data
| ID | 2327481 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jervey Tervalon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jervey |
| FAMILY NAME | Tervalon |
| SIGNATURE | TERVALON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jervey Tervalon is the Director of the Literature for Life Project and is an Associate Professor of English at National University. He lives in Altadena, California with his two daughters. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Fruits of Demographic Change
“I don't believe in integration to achieve miscegenation” is a line from a Kid Creole song that appeals to me because I was born in New Orleans, where race was chaste and was inescapable unless one chose to pay the very high price to pass. Ignoring the diversity in your own family. Then, where one fit in society had everything to do with how one appeared; the whiter, the better. When we moved to Los Angeles, we went from being “Creole,” more than…
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The Fruits of Demographic Change
“I don't believe in integration to achieve miscegenation” is a line from a Kid Creole song that appeals to me because I was born in New Orleans, where race was chaste and was inescapable unless one chose to pay the very high price to pass. Ignoring the diversity in your own family. Then, where one fit in society had everything to do with how one appeared; the whiter, the better. When we moved to Los Angeles, we went from being “Creole,” more than…
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