Mixed By Angela Nissel Summary

Mixed is an inside look at a mixed-race woman’s self-discovery. The author was born to an African-American mother and a white father in Philadelphia, on December 5, 1978. She spent her life in Pennsylvania until moving to Los Angeles, California. Although Angela Nissel became a successful writer with her witty sense of humor, it took years to accept her true heritages and to find her place on Earth.

It is likely one of the most amazing tragicomedy memoirs launched in its genre. She has a unique ability to express her traumatic stories with a touch of comedy that makes readers not only laugh but also think about what is lying underneath the stories. Nissel portrays her mom’s effort in preparing her to the outside world as “Biracial Marketing Department”, emphasizing the benefits and privileges of having “the best of both worlds.” However, when she was in third grade in a Catholic school, she explored only one benefit: getting away from head-lice check. During the school routine, she was confused about her place in the check line and so scared of the nuns to tell them her father was white, and she was only half –black. …show more content…
Nissel was emotionally in pain and confused in her childhood regarding her heritages because the music she heard, the hairstyle she had, or the color she chose to wear was associated with race. She writes about for being called names at her school or neighborhood as “Zebra, mulatto, mixed, or high yellow” that intensified her identity crisis. However, the book also reveals how she became popular among the black boy as a light-skinned teenage girl, so the year “1988 was a banner year for her high