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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Trans-American Modernisms: Racial Passing, Travel Writing, and Cultural Fantasies of Latin America University of Southern California August 2009 311 pages Ruth Blandón Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ENGLISH) In my historical examination of the literary…
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The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil University of North Carolina Press February 1999 168 pages 6.125 x 9.25, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN 978-0-8078-4766-4 Hermano Vianna Edited and translated by John Charles Chasteen, Associate Professor of History University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Samba is Brazil’s “national rhythm,” the foremost…
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The African Presence in Brazil: Slavery, Resistance, Miscegenation and Strategic Popularization of Afro-Brazilian Music Culture Kalamazoo College 2004 69 pages Danielle Dubois Flax This thesis intends to investigate the history of slavery in Brazil, its effects on the demographic, psychological and political reality of Afro-Brazilians, and most essentially: how representations of Afro-Brazilian music and culture…
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In recent decades Germany has struggled with the reality of being a multicultural society. The influx of political and economic refugees from Asia and Africa as well as growing friction between resident aliens euphemistically termed “Gastarbeiter” (guest workers) and the German population have created a political atmosphere conducive to neofascist and nationalistic elements expounding xenophobic…
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A Recovered Early Letter by Charles Chesnutt American Literary Realism Volume 40, Number 2 (Winter, 2008) pages 180-182 DOI: 10.1353/alr.2008.0006 Randall Gann University of New Mexico In the preface to the first volume of their edition of Charles Chesnutt’s letters, Joseph McElraih and Robert Leitz III contend that Chesnutt “was among the most visible figures…
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Michelle Cliff and the Authority of Identity The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Volume 28, Number 1, Identities (Spring, 1995) pages 56-70 Sally O’Driscoll, Associate Professor of English Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut Michelle Cliff has gained critical acclaim as a novelist in the United States and England; her position as an expatriate Jamaican…
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Decoding E. Shockley’s “mesostics from the american grammar book” Pt. 2 SIUE Black Studies Blog Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville 2011-10-13 Cindy Lyles Alongside [Evie] Shockley’s bold choice to write a poem using only names of black women, her stanza construction also makes a daring statement in “mesostics for the american grammar book.” The names are…
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Her “Nig”: Returning the Gaze of Nella Larsen’s “Passing” Modern Language Studies Volume 32, Number 2 (Autumn, 2002) pages 109-138 Lori Harrison-Kahan, Full-time Adjunct Faculty in English Boston College In a scene from Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel, Passing, a white man, John Bellew, enters his Chicago hotel room to find his wife, Clare, taking tea…
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Narrative Miscegenation: “Absalom, Absalom!” as Naturalist Novel, Auto/Biography, and African-American Oral Story Journal of Narrative Theory Volume 31, Number 2 (Summer, 2001) pages 155-179 DOI: 10.1353/jnt.2011.0080 Alex Vernon, Associate Professor of English Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas Charles Darwin’s evolutionary ideas, especially as disseminated by Herbert Spencer, profoundly affected literary criticism at the end of the…