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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The Subject in Black and White: Afro-German Identity Formation in Ika Hügel-Marshall’s Autobiography Daheim unterwegs: Ein deutsches Leben Women in German Yearbook: Feminist Studies in German Literature & Culture Volume 21 (2005) pages 62-84 DOI: 10.1353/wgy.2005.0012 E-ISSN: 1940-512X;Print ISSN: 1058-7446 Deborah Janson, Associate Professor of Foreign Languages West Virginia University Black Germans still experience prejudice…
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Impurely Raced // Purely Erased: Toward a Rhetorical Theory of (Bi)Racial Passing University of Southern California May 2009 348 pages Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMMUNICATION) This dissertation…
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A Transnational Temperance Discourse? William Wells Brown, Creole Civilization, and Temperate Manners The Journal of Transnational American Studies Volume 3, Issue 1 (2011) Article 16 27 pages Carole Lynn Stewart, Assistant Professor of English University of Maryland, Baltimore County In the nineteenth century, temperance movements provided the occasion for a transnational discourse. These conversations possessed…
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Daphne Grace in Conversation with Keith A. Russell Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 8, Issue 1 – Bahamian Literature (2011-04-22) Article 14 Daphne Grace Keith A. Russell, Adjunct Professor The College of The Bahamas, Northern Campus Daphne Grace in Conversation with Keith A. Russell, Freeport, Grand Bahama (27 August 2008) DG: You have written…
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While racial passing seems outdated by today’s standards, and the very thought of a black person needing to pass for white actually smacks of racism, this essay repositions the importance of passing as a genre by looking at four key Hollywood films from the early-‘30s through the late-‘50s: two versions of “Imitation of Life” (John…
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From the “half-breed” to the “tragic mulatto”: The race integration film in the fifties and the struggle for social equality New York University May 2007 435 pages Publication Number: AAT 3269779 ISBN: 9780549099536 Ryan Daniel DeRosa, Assistant Professor of Film Studies Ohio University A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree…
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Recasting the Real: Reconstructivism: A Response to Hybridity in Contemporary Art Methodologies The University of Alabama McNair Journal The McNair Scholars Program Volume 7 (Spring 2007) pages 65-84 Suzanah Moorer While many artists are taking an interdisciplinary approach to art making, currently there is not a critical consensus on the direction and significance of hybrid…
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Hybridity gets fashionable Andréia Azevedo Soares LabLit.com: the culture of science fiction & fact 2009-10-24 The novel White Teeth offers a different perspective on science Even if you haven’t read the novel White Teeth by Zadie Smith, you probably remember it—unless you were lying comatose at the beginning of this century. White Teeth was considered…