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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Painting the World’s Christ: Tanner, Hybridity, and the Blood of the Holy Land Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide: a journal of ninetheenth-century visual culture Volume 3, Issue 2 (Autumn 2004) Alan C. Braddock, Assistant Professor of Art History Tyler School of Art, Temple University Henry Ossawa Tanner’s global vision of Christ circa 1900 projected an ideal of…
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Affirming Blackness: A Rebuttal to Will South’s “A Missing Question Mark: The Unknown Henry Ossawa Tanner” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide: a journal of ninetheenth-century visual culture Volume 9, Issue 2 (Autumn 2010) Naurice Frank Woods, Visiting Assistant Professor of African American Studies University of North Carolina, Greensboro George Dimock, Associate Professor of Art History University of…
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The First Black Prairie Novel: Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance’s Autobiography and the Repression of Prairie Blackness Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes Volume 45, Number 2 (Spring 2011) pages 31-57 E-ISSN: 1911-0251; Print ISSN: 0021-9495 DOI: 10.1353/jcs.2011.0022 Karina Vernon, Assistant Professor of English University of Toronto This essay situates Chief Buffalo Child’s Long Lance:…
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White women’s complicity and the taboo: Faulkner’s layered critique of the “miscegenation complex” Women’s Studies Volume 22, Issue 4 (1993) pages 497-506 DOI: 10.1080/00497878.1993.9978998 Karen M. Andrews Kobe College, Japan In Faulkner’s social milieu, the proscription against miscegenation between white women and black men was so deeply ingrained as to be “common sense.” White male…
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‘Horror and beauty in rare combination’: The miscegenate fictions of Octavia butler Women: A Cultural Review Volume 7, Issue 1 (1996) pages 28-38 DOI: 10.1080/09574049608578256 Roger Luckhurst, Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature Birkbeck, University of London Octavia Butler’s work is virtually unknown, and yet her ten novels and one short story collection constitute an…
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From exile to transcendence: racial mixture and the journey of revision in the works of Lydia Maria Child, Hannah Crafts, Kate Chopin, James Weldon Johnson, and Jean Toomer University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign May 2010 Suzanne M. Lynch My study, entitled From Exiles to Transcendences focuses on five authors: Lydia Maria Child, Hannah Crafts, Kate Chopin,…
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Racial mixture and civil war: The histories of the U.S. South and Mexico in the novels of William Faulkner and Carlos Fuentes Michigan State University 2008 266 pages Publication Number: AAT 3331903 ISBN: 9780549837800 Emron Lee Esplin, Assistant Professor of English and American Studies Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia A Dissertation Submitted to Michigan State…
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‘Kissing the rod that chastised me’: Scarlett, Rhett and Miscegenation in Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind (1936) Irish Journal of American Studies Volume 13/14, (2004/2005) pages 123-137 Sinéad Moynihan, Lecturer in English University of Exeter “It’s all so mixed up,” Cindy muses in a 2001 parody of Gone With the Wind, as she imaginatively…
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Marginal Man and Hard-Boiled Detective: Racial Passing in Robert Skinner’s Wesley Farrell Series Clues: A Journal of Detection Volume 26, Number 3 (Spring 2008) pages 56-69 DOI: 10.3172/CLU.26.3.56 Sinéad Moynihan, Lecturer in English University of Exeter The author argues that tropes of detection and racial passing are mutually compatible in Robert Skinner’s six New Orleans-set…