Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Tag: Ohio State University Press
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Thomas C. Gannon’s “Birding While Indian” spans more than fifty years of childhood walks and adult road trips to deliver, via a compendium of birds recorded and revered, the author’s life as a part-Lakota inhabitant of the Great Plains.
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Growing up with adoptive nisei parents, Susan Kiyo Ito knew only that her birth mother was Japanese American and her father white. But finding and meeting her birth mother in her early twenties was only the beginning of her search for answers, history, and identity.
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“Imoinda’s Shade” examines the ways in which British writers utilize the most popular African female figure in eighteenth-century fiction and drama to foreground the African woman’s concerns and interests as well as those of a British nation grappling with the problems of slavery and abolition.
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Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule Ohio State University Press May 2010 161 pages 6×9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8142-1126-7 CD ISBN: 978-0-8142-9224-2 Shuchi Kapila, Associate Professor of English Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa Even though Edward Said’s Orientalism inspired several generations of scholars to study the English novel’s close involvement with…
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Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus Ohio State University Press July 2008 224 pages 6×9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8142-5168-3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8142-1091-8 CD ISBN: 978-0-8142-9171-9 Margo Natalie Crawford, Associate Professor of English Cornell University After the “Black is Beautiful” movement of the 1960s, black body politics have been overdetermined by both the familiar fetishism of light…