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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Category: Books
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Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel University of Illinois Press 2001 208 pages 6 x 9 in. Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07248-2 M. Giulia Fabi, Associate professor of American literature University of Ferrara, Italy Revealing the role of light-skinned black characters passing for white in African American literature A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2003…
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An extraordinary literary friendship, preserved in letters
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When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote: African-Native American Literature University of Illinois Press 2003 328 pages 6 x 9 in. Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-02819-9 Edited by: Jonathan Brennan, Professor of English Mission College, Santa Clara, California An exploration of the literature, history, and culture of people of mixed African-Native American descent An exploration of the literature, history,…
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Winner of the 2014 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award, sponsored by the ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities.
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Fetishes and Monuments: Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20th Century Berghahn Books 2007 224 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-1-84545-363-3 Paberback ISBN: ISBN 978-1-84545-711-2 Roger Sansi, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology Goldsmith’s College, London One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomblé were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its cult objects were fearsome…
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Isamu Noguchi, born in Los Angeles as the illegitimate son of an American mother and a Japanese poet father, was one of the most prolific yet enigmatic figures in the history of twentieth-century American art. Throughout his life, Noguchi (1904-1988) grappled with the ambiguity of his identity as an artist caught up in two cultures.
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Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman’s Life Unveiled Louisiana State University Press 1994 496 pages 6.00 x 9.00 inches 12 halftones Paperback ISBN: 9780807120705 Thadious M. Davis, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought; Professor of English University of Pennsylvania Nella Larsen (1891–1964) is recognized as one of the most influential,…
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Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, Fourth Edition Continuum Press 2001-10-24 (First published in 1973) 480 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780826412676 Donald Bogle, Film Historian Winner of the 1973 Theatre Library Association Award Completely updated to include the entire twentieth century, this new fourth edition covers all the…
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Writing the South through the Self: Explorations in Southern Autobiography University of Georgia Press 2011-05-01 246 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-3767-8 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-3767-8 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-3968-9 John C. Inscoe, Albert B. Saye Professor and University Professor of History University of Georgia Using autobiography as an invaluable means for understanding southern history Drawing…