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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Crimes of Performance Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society Volume 13, Issue 1 (2011) Special Issue: Black Critiques of Capital: Radicalism, Resistance, and Visions of Social Justice pages 29-45 DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2011.551476 Uri McMillan, Assistant Professor of English University of California, Los Angeles In this article, I focus on the intersections between…
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Signifying the tragic mulatto: A semiotic analysis of Alex Haley’s Queen Howard Journal of Communications Volume 7, Issue 2 (1996) pages 113-126 DOI: 10.1080/10646179609361718 Mark P. Orbe Karen E. Strother Employing a semiotic framework, this article explores the signification process of the lead character in Alex Haley’s Queen. This popular miniseries is significant because a…
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Dances With Aliens? Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Dr. Dawkins shares her thoughts on multiracialism, media and James Cameron’s blockbuster film “Avatar” at the 2011 American Studies Association Conference.
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Wuthering Heights realises Brontë’s vision with its dark-skinned Heathcliff The Guardian Film Blog 2011-10-21 Tola Onanuga, Freelance Subeditor and Writer At last, Andrea Arnold has bucked the trend of casting white actors in the role of Emily Brontë’s ‘gypsy’ foundling hero Andrea Arnold’s forthcoming adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic 1847 novel Wuthering Heights, will see,…
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Black devils, white saints and mixedrace femme fatales: Philippa Schuyler and the winds of change Critical Arts Volume 25, Issue 3 (2011) Special Issue: The Afropessimism Phenomenon pages 360-376 DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2011.615140 Daniel R. McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom This article sheds new light on abstract definitions of Afropessimism by analysing…
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History and the (Un)making of Identifications in Literary Representations of Anglo-Indians and Goan Catholics University of British Columbia September 2000 465 pages Marian Josephine Gracias A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Department of English) This dissertation examines selected literature…
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To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance University Press of Mississippi 1999 202 pages Cloth: 157806130X (9781578061303) Paper: 1578061318 (9781578061310) Jon Woodson, Professor of English Howard University, Washington, D.C. Jean Toomer’s adamant stance against racism and his call for a raceless society were far more complex than the average reader of…