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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Was Your Mama Mulatto? Notes toward a Theory of Racialized Sexuality in Gayl Jones’s “Corregidora” and Julie Dash’s “Daughters of the Dust” Callaloo Volume 27, Number 3 (Summer, 2004) pages 768-787 E-ISSN: 1080-6512, Print ISSN: 0161-2492 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2004.0136 Caroline A. Streeter, Associate Professor of English University of California, Los Angeles Gayl Jones’s novel Corregidora (1975)…
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Race Passing and American Individualism University of Massachusetts Press February 2003 176 pages Cloth ISBN: 1-55849-377-8 (Print on Demand) Kathleen Pfeiffer, Professor of English Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan A literary study of the ambiguities of racial identity in American culture In the literature of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, black characters who pass for…
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Mapping the liminal identities of mulattas in African, African American, and Caribbean literatures Pennsylvania State University December 2006 285 pages AAT: 3343682 ISBN: 9780549992738 Khadidiatou Gueye Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy December 2006 In twentieth-century African, African American, and Caribbean literatures, mixed-blood women are often misread…
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Untragic Mulatto: Charles Chesnutt and the Discourse of Whiteness American Literary History Volume 8, Number 3 (Fall 1996) pages 426-448 DOI: 10.1093/alh/8.3.426 Stephen P. Knadler Among Charles Chesnutt’s earliest political essays is a little studied piece that he wrote for the New York Independent entitled “What Is a White Man?” (1889). At a time when…
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Dougla, Half-doogla, Travesao, and the Limits of Hybridity Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 7, Issues 1 & 2 (Fall 2009) 30 paragraphs ISSN 1547-7150 Jennifer Rahim, Senior Lecturer in English University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Discourses on Caribbean culture and identity have been, if anything, prolific and energetic in their manufacture and circulation…
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What Racial Hybridity? Sexual Politics of Mixed-Race Identities in the Caribbean and the Performance of Blackness Lucayos The School of English Studies of The College of The Bahamas’ Journal of Caribbean and Postcolonial Criticism and Creative Work Volume 1 (2008) pages 90-105 Papers from the 26th West Indian Literature Conference, March 8-10, 2007 Angelique V.…
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Skin, race and space: the clash of bodily schemas in Frantz Fanon’s Black Skins, White Masks and Nella Larsen’s Passing Cultural Geographies Volume 18, Number 1 (2011-01-06) pages 25-41 DOI: 10.1177/1474474010379953 Steve Pile, Professor of Human Geography The Open University, United Kingdom Nella Larsen’s novel Passing offers the opportunity to reconsider the relationship between race…
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Musical Miscegenation? Rock Music and the History of Sex e-misférica Hemispheric Institute for Performance & Politics Issue 5.2: Race and its Others (December 2008) Tavia Nyong’o, Associate Professor of Performance Studies New York University Image by Bruce Yonemoto Countering facile analogies between musical hybridity and sex across the color line that characterize certain popular discourses…
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Ellen Craft’s Radical Techniques of Subversion e-misférica Hemispheric Institute for Performance & Politics Issue 5.2: Race and its Others (December 2008) 16 pages Uri McMillan, Assistant Professor of English University of California, Los Angeles Image by Bruce Yonemoto This paper considers the antebellum performance(s) of fugitive slave Ellen Craft. Craft, an African-American female slave from…
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A New Look At The Life Of Jean Toomer National Public Radio All Things Considered 2010-12-30 Robert Siegel, Host Rudolph P. Byrd, Goodrich C. White Professor of American Studies and African American Studies Emory University Jean Toomer received much acclaim for his portrait of African-American life in the early 20th century in his 1923 book…