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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Family Matters in the Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt The Southern Literary Journal Volume 33, Number 2, Spring 2001 pages 30-43 E-ISSN: 1534-1461 Print ISSN: 0038-4291 DOI: 10.1353/slj.2001.0012 William M. Ramsey, Professor of English Francis Marion University Writing fiction one hundred years ago, Charles W. Chesnutt believed that America’s racial future was best embodied in…
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The case of Ebony and Topaz: Racial and Sexual Hybridity in Harlem Renaissance Illustrations American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography Volume 15, Number 1, (2005) pages 86-111 E-ISSN: 1548-4238 Print ISSN: 1054-7479 DOI: 10.1353/amp.2005.0006 Caroline Goeser, Assistant Professor of Art History University of Houston > University of Virginia Ebony and Topaz was…
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Racial Choice at Century’s End in Contemporary African American Literature University of Maryland 2008 161 pages Kaylen Danielle Tucker Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2008 This dissertation introduces the term “racial…
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Equivocal subjects: The representation of mixed-race identity in Italian film University of California, Irvine 2007 226 pages AAT 3296258 ISBN: 9780549410775 Shelleen Maisha Greene, Assistant Professor of Conceptual Studies University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee My dissertation seeks to establish a critical framework for the analysis of mixed-race subjects in Italian film. Within the Italian context, mixed-race…
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The Mulatto Cyborg: Imagining a Multiracial Future Cinema Journal Volume 44, Number 2 (Winter, 2005) pages 34-49 Leilani Nishime, Assistant Professor of Communications University of Washington Applying the literature of passing to cyborg cinema makes visible the politics of cyborg representations and illuminates contemporary conceptions of mixed-race subjectivity and interpolations of mixed-race bodies. The passing…
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The Veils of the Law: Race and Sexuality in Nella Larsen’s Passing College Literature Volume 22, Number 3 (October 1995) Race and Politics: The Experience of African-American Literature pages 50-67 Corinne E. Blackmer, Associate Professor of English Southern Connecticut State University When Nella Larsen, then a prominent young writer of the Harlem Renaissance, published her…
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Searching for the authentic Red-Black self: Depictions of African-Native subjectivity in literature, visual art, and film University of California, Berkeley 2005 235 pages AAT 3186996 ISBN: 9780542292071 Sarita Nyasha Cannon, Associate Professor of English San Francisco State University In this dissertation, I explore representations of a largely invisible multiracial group: people of Native American and…
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Classes You May Have Missed: On Modern Brazilian Literature Pitt Magazine January, 1995 Bobby J. Chamberlain, Associate Professor of Brazilian Culture and Literature University of Pittsburgh Brazilian culture has always been considered a fusion of three different races: the Europeans (specifically Portuguese), the Indians, and the Africans who were taken to Brazil as slaves. But…
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Laughing To Keep From Crying: Resisting “Race” Through Irony Tympanum: A Journal of Comparative Literary Studies Number 4, (2000) issn# 1522-7723 Ronald Sundstrom, Director and Associate Professor of African American Studies University of San Francisco He wanted to rise-a malicious, ironic voice insisted that he rise-and, at once, to leave this temple and go out…