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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“Divine Variations” offers a new account of the development of scientific ideas about race. Focusing on the production of scientific knowledge over the last three centuries, Terence Keel uncovers the persistent links between pre-modern Christian thought and contemporary scientific perceptions of human difference.
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Andrew LaMar Hopkins celebrates the rich contributions of 19th-Century New Orleans in his folk art style (and drag).
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In this course, we will read fiction and graphic novels that investigate the phenomenon of racial passing in the United States, whereby “black” persons light-skinned enough to appear “white” cross the color line to live as white people.
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The classic biography of the infamous black Negrophobe William Hannibal Thomas, with a new preface by the author
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Elevating Social Status by Racial Passing and White Assimilation: in George Schuyler’s Black No More
This paper aims to reconcile the assimilationist views of Schuyler against his larger purpose of empowerment through change. Schuyler focuses on issues of education, economy, and social status to demonstrate his thesis: meaningful change is possible if action is taken.
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“Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932” examines an understudied visual language used to portray Latin Americans in mid-19th to early 20th-century Parisian popular visual media.
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Alison Fraunhar discerningly examines how the mulata has been represented and performed in Cuban visual culture from the nineteenth century to the present. She analyzes a variety of visual media, from prints and paintings to film and photography, to demonstrate how the identity and stereotypes of the mulata developed within popular culture and the national…
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“Mexican Costumbrismo” reorients current understanding of this key period in the history of Mexican art by focusing on a distinctive genre of painting that emerged between 1821 and 1890: costumbrismo.
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National Geographic has made a rare, and refreshing, admission of past racism. But its most recent cover story undermines this corrective.
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Currently in its 37th year, the President’s Writing Awards contest honors undergraduate writing at Boise State.