Category: Literary/Artistic Criticism

  • Fear and Desire: Regional Aesthetics and Colonial Desire in Kate Chopin’s Portrayals of the Tragic Mulatta Stereotype The Southern Literary Journal Volume 43, Number 1 (Fall 2010) pages 1-22 E-ISSN: 1534-1461 Print ISSN: 0038-4291 Dagmar Pegues The interrogation of the category of race in Kate Chopin’s fiction represents an essential dimension of regional aesthetics, and…

  • Meridians: Mapping Metaphors of Mixed Race Indentity University of Florida August 2004 238 pages Shane Willow Trudell A dissertation presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in partial fulfullment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy Although mixed race identity traditionally has been equated with conflict, the conflict is not…

  • BBC Two explores what it means to be mixed-race in Britain British Broadcasting Corporaton 2010-03-10 Mixed-Race Britain is put under the spotlight this autumn on BBC Two in a collection of revealing and compelling new programmes. Britain in 2011 has proportionately the largest mixed population in the Western world, but 100 years ago people of…

  • Monsters, Messiahs, or Something Else? Mixed-Race in Science Fiction Movies New York University Jeffrey S. Gould Welcome Center 50 West 4th Street New York, New York 2011-03-28, 18:00-19:30 EDT (Local TIme) Eric Hamako University of Massachusetts, Amherst Join BAMSA, The Center, and the A/P/A Institute for another installment of the Multiple Identity Speaker Series: Monsters,…

  • Session 408: Haafu, mixed race studies and multicultural questions in Japan AAS-ICAS Joint Conference Association for Asian Studes (AAS)/International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) 2011-03-31 through 2011-04-03 Hawai’i Convention Center Honolulu, Hawaii Session Location and Time: Room 316C Saturday, 2011-04-02, 07:30-09:30 HAST (Local Time) Organizer and Chair: Koichi Iwabuchi Waseda University, Japan Discussant: Hsiao-Chuan Hsia…

  • Jean Toomer’s Conflicted Racial Identity The Chronicle of Higher Education 2011-02-06 Rudolph P. Byrd, Goodrich C. White Professor of American Studies and African American Studies Emory University Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research Harvard University On August 4, 1922,…

  • The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary Rutgers University Press 2011-01-19 248 pages, 3 photographs Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4783-1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4782-4 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8135-4989-7 Lori Harrison-Kahan, Full-time Adjunct Faculty in English Boston College During the first half of the twentieth century, American Jews demonstrated a commitment to racial justice as well as an…

  • Charles W. Chesnutt and the Engendering of a Post-Reconstruction Multiracial Politics The Conversation Number 2 (2009-2010) Kirin Wachter-Grene Once a promising fiction writer and would-be spokesman for African-Americans, Charles W. Chesnutt promoted a form of multiracialism but is largely forgotten today. Kirin Wachter-Grene traces the development of Chesnutt’s ideas about the amalgamation of races and…

  • Accounting for the Audience in Historical Reconstruction: Martin Jones’s Production of Langston Hughes’s Mulatto Theatre Survey Number 36, Issue 1 (1995) pages 5-19 DOI: 10.1017/S0040557400006451 Jay Plum, Ph.D. Although Langston Hughes’s Mulatto holds the record as the second longest Broadway production of a play by an African American playwright (surpassed only by Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin…

  • Liminality and Transgression in Langston Hughes’ “Mulatto” Cuadernos de investigación filológica (C.I.F.) Number 26 (2000) pages 263-271 ISSN: 0211-0547 Isabel Soto Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia This essay explores societal fear of the mulatto as charted by Langston Hughes’ play “Mulatto” (1931).  “Mulatto” dramatizes the demand for social incorporation by a mixed-race young man,…