TY - BOOK ID - 78646931 TI - Refuse PY - 2018 SN - 0822986175 9780822986171 9780822965602 0822965607 PB - Pittsburgh, Pa. DB - UniCat KW - Bisexuality KW - African Americans KW - Men, Black KW - Racially mixed people KW - Bi-racial people KW - Biracial people KW - Interracial people KW - Mixed race people KW - Mixed-racial people KW - Mulattoes KW - Multiracial people KW - Peoples of mixed descent KW - Ethnic groups KW - Miscegenation KW - Black men KW - Bi-sexuality KW - Sexual orientation KW - Homosexuality UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78646931 AB - Set against the backdrop of the Obama presidency, Julian Randall's Refuse documents a young biracial man's journey through the mythos of Blackness, Latinidad, family, sexuality and a hostile American landscape. Mapping the relationship between father and son caught in a lineage of grief and inherited Black trauma, Randall conjures reflections from mythical figures such as Icarus, Narcissus and the absent Frank Ocean. Not merely a story of the wound but the salve, Refuse is a poetry debut that accepts that every song must end before walking confidently into the next music ER -