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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Eurasian/Amerasian perspectives: Kim Lefèvre’s Métisse Blanche (White Métisse) and Kien Nguyen’s The Unwanted Asian Studies Review Volume 29, Issue 2 (2005) pages 107-122 DOI: 10.1080/10357820500221162 Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen, Associate Professor of Historical and Philosophical Studies University of Melbourne This article examines the articulation of Kim Lefèvre’s and Kien Nguyen’s difficult and traumatic childhoods in…
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“Home is Nowehere”: Negotiating Identities in Colonized Worlds University of Georgia 2007 57 pages Julia A. Tigner A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The University of Georgia in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS The Bildungsroman, a term that derived from German literary criticism, is a genre of…
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The Antisocial Escape of William Faulkner’s Tragic Mulattoes University of Georgia 2008 34 pages Courtney Thomas A Thesis Submitted to the Honors Council of the University of Georgia in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree BACHELOR OF ARTS in ENGLISH with HONORS With the characters of Charles Bon in Absalom, Absalom! (1936) and…
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Towards a Dialogic Understanding of Print Media Stories About Black/White Interracial Families University of Georgia 2003 160 pages Victor Kulkosky A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The University of Georgia in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS This thesis examines print media news stories about Black/White interracial families…
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Adlai Murdoch offers a detailed rereading of five major contemporary French Caribbean writers–Glissant, Condé, Maximin, Dracius-Pinalie, and Chamoiseau. Emphasizing the role of narrative in fashioning the cultural and political doubleness of Caribbean Creole identity, Murdoch shows how these authors actively rewrite their own colonially driven history.
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Beyond Liverpool, 1957: Travel, diaspora, and migration in Jamal Mahjoub’s The Drift Latitudes The Journal of Commonwealth Literature Volume 46, Number 3 (September 2011) pages 493-511 DOI: 10.1177/0021989411409813 Jopi Nyman, Professor University of Eastern Finland, Finland This essay discusses the novel The Drift Latitudes (2006) by the Anglo-Sudanese author Jamal Mahjoub. By telling the stories…
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Mixed messages: ‘mixed race’ representations in film Concordia University August 2004 124 pages Naomi Angel The growing interest in issues pertaining to mixed race identities and communities, as well as a surge in films with mixed race characters has prompted this examination of representations of mixed race characters in film from the 1950s to the…
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Neither White Nor Black: The Mulatto Character in American Fiction New York University Press 1978 280 pages ISBN-10: 0814709966; ISBN-13: 978-0814709962 9 x 6 x 1 inches This book is out of print. Judith R. Berzon The mulatto character has captured the imagination of American novelist in every period of our literature. For American writers, the…