Category: Literary/Artistic Criticism

  • Visually white, legally black: Miscegenation, the mulatto, and passing in American literature and culture, 1865–1933 Illinois State University 2004 193 pages Publication Number: AAT 3128271 Karen A. Chachere Many historians and literary scholars characterize the period between 1865-1933 as America’s preoccupation with the “Negro Question.” Admittedly, America was intrigued by the idea of the former…

  • Over the river and through the woods: Miscegenation and the American experiment State University of New York at Buffalo 2007 214 pages Publication Number: AAT 3277744 ISBN: 9780549178705 Shelby Lucille Crosby This dissertation examines how early American authors utilized the concept of miscegenation as a way to alter the American experiment. By invoking and exploring…

  • From Invisible Man to “New People”: The Recent Discovery of American Mulattoes Phylon (1960-) Volume 46, Number 2 (2nd Quarter, 1985) pages 106-122 Patricia Morton It might well seem obvious what the following persons have in common: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Walter White, Horace Mann Bond, Julian Bond, Martin Luther King, Jr.,…

  • The Politics of Multiracialism with Dr. Ralina Joseph Voxunion 2010-03-23 Jared A. Ball, Host and Associate Professor of Communication Studies Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Ralina L. Joseph, Associate Professor of Communications University of Washington The struggles surrounding the politics of identity seem at new heights these days and to help bring some historical context…

  • Mixed Messages: Barack Obama and Post-Racial Politics Spectator (Journal of the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematics Arts) Volume 30, Number 2 (Fall 2010) pages 9-17 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University The election of President Barack Hussein Obama marks an important milestone in United States racial politics. Many cultural critics and opinion leaders…

  • The historical politics of the New Zealand half-caste MAI Review Issue 3 (2008) Article 7 ISSN 1177-5904 11 pages Gina M. Colvin-McCluskey The archives of settler journalism provides us with a rich resource for engaging with some of the ‘raced’ discourses in circulation at the commencement of Britain’s colonial project in Āotearoa/New Zealand. From these…

  • Sex, Blood, and Hybridity: The Discourse of Racial Anxiety in Antebellum Writing Northeast Modern Language Association NeMLA 2012 Convention Rochester, New York 2012-03-15 through 2012-03-18 This panel seeks to investigate how antebellum literary texts worked dialectically with the new racial science of ethnology to respond to the dominant racial ideologies of the day. Topics and/or…

  • “My Daughter Married a Negro”: Interracial Relationships in the United States as Portrayed in Popular Media, 1950-1975 Journal of Undergraduate Research University of Wisconsin, La Crosse Volume VIII (2005) 13 pages Melissa Magnuson-Cannady Between 1948 and 1967, thirty states either repealed their anti-miscegenation laws or the states’ laws themselves were struck down as unconstitutional by…

  • Nation, miscegenation, and the myth of the mulatta/o monster 1859-1886 Universite de Montreal (Canada) 2009 261 pages Publication Number: AAT NR60321 ISBN: 9780494603215 Jessica Alexandra Maeve Murphy These presentee a la Faculte des etudes superieures En vue de l’obtention du grade de Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) en etudes anglaises “Nation, Miscegenation, and The Myth of the…

  • Life on the boundary: “Passing” and the limits of self-definition Rutgers University, Camden May 2011 46 pages Raven Marlenia Moses A thesis submitted to the Graduate School-Camden Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Graduate Program in English With the advent of…