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: Literary/Artistic Criticism
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Meet one of the most influential men in the United States’ history of emancipation and Black rights.
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A discussion of Rena Heinrich’s new book, Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama (Rutgers University Press, 2023). The author will be joined in conversation by SanSan Kwan (UC Berkeley) and Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain (Maynooth University), moderated by Duncan Williams (USC). Coorganized by the USC School of Dramatic Arts and the USC…
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Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama Rutgers University Press 2023-06-16 194 pages, 8 bw, 3 color 6.12 x 9.25 Paperback ISBN: 9781978835535 Cloth ISBN: 9781978835542 EPUB ISBN: 9781978835559 Kindle ISBN: 9781978835566 PDF ISBN: 9781978835573 Rena M. Heinrich, Assistant Professor of Theatre Practice University of Southern California Mixed-race Asian American plays are…
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“Thinking While Black” brings together the work and ideas of the most notorious film critic in America, one of the most influential intellectuals in the United Kingdom, and a political and cultural generation that consumed images of rebellion and revolution around the world as young Black teenagers in the late 1960s.
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The term “miscegenation” was coined in an 1864 pamphlet by an anonymous author.
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Doublings and Dissociation in Nella Larsen’s Passing and Helen Oyeyemi’s Boy, Snow, Bird Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities Volume 27, 2022 – Issue 3-4: after modernism: women, gender, race. issue editor: pelagia goulimari Pages 182-198 DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2022.2093974 Jean Wyatt, Professor of English; Emerita Occidental College, Los Angeles, California In this paper I explore the…
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As a literary genre in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century, many African American-to-white racial passing fictions are built around a stable set of narrative conventions: the passer decides to pass, moves to a new location, takes on a new name and identity, and then either dies, returns to his or her “true” race, or moves…
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This chapter examines the publication of “Theresa” in Freedom’s Journal, a short story about women’s wartime heroism into the broader history of the Haitian Revolution. “Theresa” paints an image of mixed-race womanhood that was not insignificant for both this American venue and for a larger transatlantic context.