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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Afro-Mexico: Dancing between Myth and Reality University of Texas Press December 2010 183 pages 62 b&w illus, 14 color photos 7 x 10 in. Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-292-72324-5 Anita González, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Theatre Arts State University of New York, New Paltz Photographs by George O. Jackson and José Manuel Pellicer Foreword by…
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4203W-01 – Racial Passing, Masquerade, and Transformation in African American Literature, Law, Film, and Culture University of Connecticut Fall 2010 Martha Cutter, Associate Professor of English What is “race”? What is “whiteness”? What is “blackness”? What does it mean to be “mixed-race” or “multi-racial” in the US? This course will examine what racial passing—people who…
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“Whiteness in the Novels of Charles W. Chesnutt” is the first study to focus exclusively on Chesnutt’s novels. Examining the three published in Chesnutt’s lifetime—”The House Behind the Cedars,” “The Marrow of Tradition,” and “The Colonel’s Dream”—as well as his posthumously published novels, this study explores the dilemma of a black writer who wrote primarily…
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American Mixed-Race Literature: Cultural History, Precursors, Identities, and Forms of Expression Purdue University 2004 116 pages Publication Number: AAT 3166693 ISBN: 9780542022999 Gino Michael Pellegrini, Adjust Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California This dissertation focuses on recent instances of mixed race literature in American culture such as Danzy Senna’s novel Caucasia, Rebecca…
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From Manenberg to Soweto: race and coloured identity in the black consciousness poetry of James Matthews African Studies Volume 62, Issue 2 (December 2003) pages 171-186 DOI: 10.1080/0002018032000148740 Mohamed Adhikari, Associate Professor of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town The Black Consciousness poetry of James Matthews, internationally recognised Coloured writer from the Cape Flats, reflects…
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“What Are You?”: Exploring Racial Categorization in “Nowhere Else on Earth” The Southern Literary Journal Volume 39, Number 1 (Fall, 2006) pages 33-53 Erica Abrams Locklear, Assistant Professor of Literature & Language University of North Carolina, Asheville In his introduction to the 1985 collection of essays entitled “Race,” Writing, and Difference, Henry Louis Gates rightfully…
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“The Horrid Alternative”: Miscegenation and Madness in the Frontier Romance Journal of American & Comparative Cultures Volume 24, Issue 3 (Fall/Winter 2001) Pages: 137-151 DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-4726.2001.2403_137.x Harry J. Brown, Assistant Professor of English DePauw University In a speech delivered to a gathering of Delaware and Mohican Indians, Thomas Jefferson foresaw the destiny of the United…
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The Octoroon: Early History of the Drama of Miscegenation The Journal of Negro Education Volume 20, Number 4 (Autumn, 1951) pages 547-557 Sidney Kaplan, Instructor In English University of Massachusetts From the moment of its birth the American democracy has appeared to some of its best champions as the perfect subject for Aristotelian tragedy. Could…
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Pinturas de Casta: Mexican Caste Paintings, a Foucauldian Reading New Readings School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University Volume 10 (July 2009) page 1-17 Nasheli Jiménez del Val Cardiff University This article looks at the genre of casta painting developed in colonial Mexico during the eighteenth century. The genre consists of a series of paintings representing…
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The Monster Inside: 19th Century Racial Constructs in the 24th Century Mythos of Star Trek The Journal of Popular Culture Volume 31, Issue 1 (Summer 1997) pages 23–35 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1997.3101_23.x Denise Alessandria Hurd That is the ineffaceable curse of Cain. Of the blood that feeds my heart, one drop in eight is black—bright red as…