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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Building the “Blue” Race: Miscegenation, Mysticism, and the Language of Cognitive Evolution in Jean Toomer’s “The Blue Meridian” Texas Studies in Literature and Language Volume 46, Number 2, Summer 2004 pages 149-180 E-ISSN: 1534-7303 Print ISSN: 0040-4691 DOI: 10.1353/tsl.2004.0008 Stephanie L. Hawkins, Assistant Professor of English University of North Texas Toomer’s vision of psychological evolution…
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Stalking the Biracial Hidden Self in Henry James’s The Sense of the Past and “The Jolly Corner” The Henry James Review Volume 25, Number 3, Fall 2004 pages 276-284 E-ISSN: 1080-6555, Print ISSN: 0273-0340 DOI: 10.1353/hjr.2004.0027 Stephanie L. Hawkins, Assistant Professor of English University of North Texas This essay argues that, for James, the visible…
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Empire’s progeny: The representation of mixed race characters in twentieth century South African and Caribbean literature 2006-01-01 355 pages Publication Number: AAT 3249543 Kathleen A. Koljian University of Connecticut A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, 2006. This dissertation is an…
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Fluidity without Postmodernism: Michelle Cliff and the “Tragic Mulatta” Tradition African American Review Vol. 32, No. 4 (Winter, 1998) pages 673-689 Suzanne Bost, Associate Professor of English Loyola University I am writing the story of my life as a statue… I wish they had carved me from the onyx of Elizabeth Catlett. Or molded me…
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The mulatta, the bishop, and dances in the Cathedral: race, music, and power relations in seventeenth-century Puerto Rico Black Music Research Journal Volume 26, Number 2 (Fall, 2006) pages 137-164 Noel Allende-Goitía, Professor of Music Universidad Interamericano de Puerto Rico, San Germán At the beginning of the twentieth century, Cayetano Coll y Toste, a Puerto…
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Queer Punk Macha Femme: Leslie Mah’s Musical Performance in Tribe 8 Cultural Studies↔Critical Methodologies Volume 10, Number 4 (August 2010) pages 295-306 Deanna Shoemaker, Assistant Professor of Applied Communication (Performance Studies) Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey This essay analyzes the musical performances of Leslie Mah, biracial lead guitarist and backup vocalist for the…
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Race, Creole, and National Identities in Rhys’s “Wide Sargasso Sea” and Phillips’s “Cambridge” Small Axe Number 21 (Volume 10, Number 3) October 2006 pages 87-104 E-ISSN: 1534-6714, Print ISSN: 0799-0537 DOI: 10.1353/smx.2006.0035 Vivian Nun Halloran, Assoiate Professor of Comparative Literature Indiana University, Bloomington As postmodern historical novels dramatizing slavery and its legacy in the anglophone…