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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Jamette Carnival and Afro-Caribbean Influences on the Work of Jean Rhys Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 3, Issue 2 (Fall 2005) 22 paragraphs ISSN 1547-7150 Cynthia Davis Most art critics would agree that since the Universal Exhibition of 1900 in Paris, African aesthetics have profoundly influenced twentieth century sculpture and painting. Literary critics have…
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Jean Toomer and the Politics and Poetics of National Identity Contributions in Black Studies A Journal of African and Afro-American Studies Volume 7, Number 1 (1985-01-01) Article 3 24 pages Onita Estes-Hicks State University of New York, Old Westbury Jean Toomer’s place in thew world of letters rests on Cane, the author’s profound statement on…
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Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance: Identity Politics and Textual Strategies Lit Verlag Munster 2003 224 pages ISBN 3-8258-5842-1 Mar Gallego, Associate Professor of American Studies University of Huelva (Spain) Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance offers an insightful study of the significance of passing novels for the literary and intellectual debate of the Harlem…
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The Mule as Metaphor in the Fiction of Charles Waddell Chesnutt Theory and Practice in English Studies Volume 4 (2005): Proceedings from the Eighth Conference of British, American and Canadian Studies. Brno: Masarykova univerzita Christopher E. Koy, Faculty of Arts University of West Bohemia, Plzen The term “mulatto,” meaning the offspring of one black parent…
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The Complexities of Identity: Teaching Michelle Cliff’s Abeng to High School Students Minnesota English Journal Volume 45 – Fall 2009 pages 19-33 Angie Iserman, English Teacher Owatonna High School, Owatonna, Minnesota When I decided to return to the role of student in order to obtain my graduate degree, my hope was I could bury myself within…
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Whiting Up: Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance University of North Carolina Press December 2011 336 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 15 illus., notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3508-1 Marvin McAllister, Assistant Professor of English University of South Carolina In the early 1890s, black performer Bob Cole turned blackface minstrelsy on its head…
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Playful ambiguities: racial and literary hybridity in the novels of Brian Castro University of Melbourne Université Toulouse-le Mirail 2010 Marilyne Brun PhD thesis, Arts – School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne and Université Toulouse-le Mirail. This thesis studies eight of the nine novels of Brian Castro, a contemporary Australian writer born in…
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NHUM3031 Passing: (Re)Constructing Identity The New School Fall 2009 Tracyann Williams, Instructor Passing: (Re)Constructing Identity: “Passing,” a term traditionally used to describe fair-skinned Blacks posing as whites, is, in fact, part of a broader cultural phenomenon that has its origins in the pursuit of “the American Dream.” For the sake of economic comforts, racially, ethnically,…