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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Inside the Color Line: Reading Biracialism in Twentieth Century American Culture State University of New York, Albany 2005 191 pages Publication ID: AAT 3181801 ISBN: 9780542221538 Habiba Ibrahim, Assistant Professor of English University of Washington A Dissertation Submitted to the University at Albany, State University of New York in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for…
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In Mestizo Nations, Juan De Castro explores the construction of nationality in Latin American and Chicano literature and thought during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing on the discourse of mestizaje—which proposes the creation of a homogenous culture out of American Indian, black, and Iberian elements—he examines a selection of texts that represent the entire…
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VIS409 Mixed Race Women’s Memoirs Antioch University, Midwest Winter 2010 This course is designed as a multidisciplinary exploration of race, gender, and identity utilizing oral and written narratives of Black-white mixed race women from the mid-nineteenth century to the present as source material. Drawing from elements of cultural studies, African American studies, American studies, and…
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Dangerous crossroads: Mestizaje in the U.S. Latino/a imaginary Rice University December 2007 197 pages Publication ID: 3309864 John L. Escobedo, Assistant Professor of English University of Colorado, Boulder A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree Doctor of Philosophy My dissertation interrogates mestizaje and nationalism to rethink academic tendencies that construct…
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The Language of Ham and the Language of Cain: “Dialect” and Linguistic Hybridity in the Work of Adam Small The Journal of Commonwealth Literature Volume 45, Number 3 (September 2010) pages 389-408 DOI: 10.1177/0021989410377550 Nicole Devarenne, Lecturer in English University of Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom The “coloured” South African writer Adam Small has made an…
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Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance University of Michigan Press 2006 256 pages 6 x 9. 29 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-472-09955-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-472-06955-2 Alicia Arrizón, Professor of Women’s Studies University of California, Riverside Winner of the Outstanding Book Award for 2008 from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Co-winner of the 2007 Modern…
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Race-ing Performativity through Transculturation, Taste and the Mulata Body Theatre Research International Volume 27, Number 2 (2002) pages 136-152 DOI: 10.1017/S0307883302000226 Alicia Arrizón, Professor of Women’s Studies University of California, Riverside A Cuban cocktail called mulata inspires an examination of the mulata body. Beyond an analysis of the cocktail as a commercial commodity, the mulata…
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Diverse Identities in Interracial Relationships: A Multiethnic Interpretation of “Mississippi Masala” and “The Wedding Banquet” Xchanges Volume 4, Number 1 (September 2004) Lan Dong, Assistant Professor of English University of Illinois, Springfield In their introduction to the collection Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality, and Transnational Media, Ella Shohat and Robert Stam point out “much of the work on…
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“Being a Half-breed”: Discourses of Race and Cultural Syncreticity in the Works of Three Metis Women Writers Canadian Literature “Native, Individual, State” Number 144, Spring, 1995 pages 82-96 Jodi Lundgren In his introduction to All My Relations, Thomas King asserts that “being Native is a matter of race rather than something more transitory such as…
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Given the impossibility of purity and the co-implication of white and black, “Fire and Desire” ultimately questions the category of “race movies” itself.