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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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…
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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…
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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.,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…