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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Being Eurasian: Memories Across Racial Divides University of Washington Press 2004 296 pages 6″ x 9″ Paperback (9789622096714) Hardcover (9789622096707) Vicky Lee Hong Kong Baptist University What was it like being a Eurasian in colonial Hong Kong? How is the notion of Eurasianness remembered in some Hong Kong memoirs? Being Eurasian is a description and…
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North of America: Racial hybridity and Canada’s (non)place in inter-American discourse Comparative American Studies: An International Journal Volume 3, Number 1 (March 2005) pages 79-88 DOI: 10.1177/1477570005050951 Albert Braz, Associate Professor of English University of Alberta, Canada Canada is one of the largest countries in the Americas, indeed the world. Yet, for such a territorial…
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Hybridity in Cooper, Mitchell and Randall: Erasures, Rewritings, and American Historical Mythology McGill University, Montreal Department of English August, 2004 86 pages Marie Thormodsgard Submitted in partial fulfillment for a Masters degree in English This thesis starts with an overview of the historical record tied to the birth of a new nation studied by Alexis…
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Passings That Pass in America: Crossing Over and Coming Back to Tell About It The History Teacher Volume 40, Number 4 (August 2007) 32 paragraphs Donald Reid, Professor of History University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill TEMPORARILY PASSING as an other is a universal fantasy and a not uncommon practice. From Arab potentates dressed as…
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AAS 4570 – Passing in African-American Imagination University of Virginia The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American & African Studies Spring 2011 Alisha Gaines, Post-Doctoral Fellow (English) Duke University This course considers the canonical African American literary tradition and popular culture texts that think through the boundaries of blackness and identity through the organizing trope…
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A Critical Race Theory Approach to Understanding Cinematic Representations of the Mixed Race Experience Center for Race & Gender University of California, Berkeley 2010-12-08 10/5/2010 CRG Forum: Mixed Race/Mixed Space in Media Culture & Militarized Zones “A Critical Race Theory Approach to Understanding Cinematic Representations of the Mixed Race Experience” Kevin Escudero, Ethnic Studies This…
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‘You Can Get Lost in Cape Town’: Transculturation and Dislocation in Zoë Wicomb’s Literary Works Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies Volume 2, Number 3 (2008) 10 pages María Jesús López Sánchez-Vizcaíno, Professor of English University of Córdoba In Zoë Wicomb’s novels and short stories, main characters tend to share Wicomb’s coloured condition—mixed-race identity as defined…