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: University of Iowa Press
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“Coloring Locals” examines how the late nineteenth-century politics of gender, class, race, and ethnicity influenced Kate Chopin’s writing for the major family periodical of her time.
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The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White University of Iowa Press April 2013 144 pages 5 ¾ x 9 ¼ Paper ISBN: 1-60938-160-2; 978-1-60938-160-8 Aisha Sabatini Sloan In these intertwined essays on art, music, and identity, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, the daughter of African American and Italian American parents,…
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Invisible Darkness: Jean Toomer and Nella Larsen University of Iowa Press 1993 255 pages, 10 photos Paper 0-87745-437-X, 978-0-87745-437-3 Charles R. Larson, Professor of Literature American University Invisible Darkness offers a striking interpretation of the tortured lives of the two major novelists of the Harlem Renaissance: Jean Toomer, author of Cane (1923), and Nella Larsen,…
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This groundbreaking study analyzes the development of American gothic literature alongside nineteenth-century discourses of passing and racial ambiguity.