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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“As to her race, its secret is loudly revealed”: Winnifred Eaton’s Revision of North American Identity MELUS Volume 32, Number 2 (Summer 2007) pages 31-53 Karen E. H. Skinazi, Instructor of English University of Alberta At the tum of the twentieth century, Quebec-born Winnifred Eaton, a Chinese British woman who used the pseudonym “Onoto Watanna,”…
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The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of The Frontier Romance Cambridge University Press August 2006 256 pages Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm Weight: 0.55 kg Hardback ISBN: 9780521865395 Paperback ISBN: 9780521073042 Adobe eBook Reader ISBN: 9780511239465 Mobipocket eBook ISBN: 9780511247484 Ezra Tawil, Associate Professor of English University of Rochester, Rochester, New York…
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Memories of Interracial Contacts and Mixed Race in Dutch Cinema Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 28, Issue 1 (2007) Pages 69 – 82 DOI: 10.1080/07256860601082947 Pamela Pattynama, Professor of Media and Culture University of Amsterdam This essay explores the (post)colonial relationship between the present-day Netherlands and its former colony the Dutch East Indies—a continuing relationship…
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Seeing Black Women Anew through Lesbian Desire in Nella Larsen’s Passing Rocky Mountain Review Rocky Mountain Language Association Volume 60, Number 1 (Spring 2006) pages 25-52 H. Jordan Landry, Professor of English University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Beginning in the 1910s and 1920s, a series of novels advocate that African Americans commit themselves to “loving blackness,”…
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Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novel The University of Alabama Press 2006 208 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-1520-7 E-Book ISBN: 978-0-8173-8228-5 Ryan Simmons An important examination of Charles Chesnutt as a practitioner of realism. With the release of previously unpublished novels and a recent proliferation of critical studies on his life and work,…
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Negotiating Coloured Identity Through Encounters with Performance University of the Western Cape November 2005 148 Pages Gino Fransman A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of MA in the Faculty of Arts University of the Western Cape In this study theatre, as staged performance and as text, will be used as…
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The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance Ashgate Publishing November 2009 232 pages Includes 5 b&w illustrations Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-6198-6 Rachel Farebrother, Lecturer in American Studies University of Swansea Beginning with a subtle and persuasive analysis of the cultural context, Farebrother examines collage in modernist and Harlem Renaissance figurative art and unearths the collage sensibility…
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Segregated Miscegenation: On the Treatment of Racial Hybridity in the North American and Latin American Literary Traditions Routledge 2003-02-28 Pages: 144 Trim Size: 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-94349-9 Carlos Hiraldo, Professor of English LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York Through the comparative study of literatures from the United States and Latin America,…
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The Ethics of Mixed Race Studies The University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee May 2009 215 pages Publication Number: AAT 3363443 ISBN: 9781109229738 Justin Ponder A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English The Ethics of Mixed Race Studies argues that Mixed Race Studies can challenge racial…
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Minstrel passing: Citizenship, race change, and motherhood in 1850s America Saint Louis University 2009 116 pages Publication Number: AAT 3383188 ISBN: 9781109452945 Roshaunda D. Cade, Writing Coordinator, Academic Resource Center Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Saint Louis University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements…