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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Performative Aspects of Brazilian Music as a Means of Creating Identity in Rio de Janeiro Universität Wien October 2008 215 pages Adriana Ribeiro-Mayer In Rio de Janeiro’s multi-ethnic society with its colonial and slave-based past creating a common identity is a major problem. Standard Portuguese, as opposed to spoken “Brazilian”, is remote to many Brazilians.…
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Gender, Mixed Race Relations and Dougla Identities in Indo-Caribbean Women’s Fiction 6th International Conference of Caribbean Women’s Writing: Comparative Critical Conversations Goldsmiths, University of London Centre for Caribbean Studies 2011-06-24 through 2011-06-25 Christine Vogt-William Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany Once a pejorative term in Hindi meaning ‘bastard’, dougla is used nowadays to designate those…
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The Missing Bi-racial Child in Hollywood Canadian Review of American Studies Volume 37, Number 2 (2007) pages 239-263 E-ISSN: 1710-114X; Print ISSN: 0007-7720 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 “mixedrace” characters…
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A New Branch of the United States’ Miscegenated Family Tree: Lynn Nottage’s “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” The Feminist Wire 2011-04-29 Soyica Colbert, Assistant Professor of English Dartmouth College Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage’s new play By the Way, Meet Vera Stark opened at the Second Stage Theatre on April 6, 2011 to guffaws…
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“Suddenly and Shockingly Black”: The Atavistic Child in Turn-into-the-Twentieth-Century American Fiction African American Review Volume 41, Number 1 (Spring, 2007) pages 51-66 J. Michael Duvall, Associate Professor of English College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina Julie Cary Nerad, Associate Professor of English Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland From at least the Civil War through the…
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Crossing Over: Racial Passing and Racial Uplift in Nella Larsen’s Fiction University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee 2009 34 pages Karly D. Beavers Senior Honors Thesis in American Studies Fundamental to the American myth is a juxtaposition of the “civilized” or “superior” majority with the “inferior” other. By classifying African Americans as inherently different from…
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Do You See Your Family?: An Examination of Racially Mixed Characters & Families in Children’s Picture Books Available in School Media Centers University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2002 37 pages Susan S. Lovett A Master’s paper submitted to the faculty of the School of Information and Library Science of the University of North Carolina…
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White Skin, White Masks: The Creole Woman and the Narrative of Racial Passing in Martinique and Louisiana University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2006 83 pages Michael James Rulon A thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master…