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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Situating the Essential Alien: Sui Sin Far’s Depiction of Chinese-White Marriage and the Exclusionary Logic of Citizenship MFS Modern Fiction Studies Volume 54, Number 4, Winter 2008 pages 654-688 E-ISSN: 1080-658X Print ISSN: 0026-7724 DOI: 10.1353/mfs.0.1561 Jane Hwang Degenhardt, Assistant Professor of English University of Massachusetts, Amherst This essay looks at how Sui Sin Far’s…
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Rene, Louis, and Leopold: Senghorian Negritude as a Black Humanism MFS Modern Fiction Studies Volume 51, Number 4, Winter 2005 pages 921-935 E-ISSN: 1080-658X Print ISSN: 0026-7724 DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2006.0008 Michel Fabre Randall Cherry Jonathan P. (Paul) Eburne, Professor of Comparative Literature and English Pennsylvania State University Drawing from archival documentation of their long-standing literary relationship,…
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Gabriela Meets Olodum: Paradoxes of Hybridity, Racial Identity, and Black Consciousness in Contemporary Brazil Research in African Literatures Volume 38, Number 1 (Spring 2007) pages 181-193 E-ISSN: 1527-2044 Print ISSN: 0034-5210 DOI: 10.1353/ral.2007.0007 Russell G. Hamilton, Emeritus Professor of Portuguese, Brazilian and Lusophone African Literatures Vanderbilt University With respect to the first part of this…
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Claiming the (n)either/(n)or of ‘third space’: (re)presenting hybrid identity and the embodiment of mixed race Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 25, Issue 1 (April 2004) pages 75 – 85 DOI: 10.1080/07256860410001687036 Torika Bolatagici, Associate Lecturer School of Communication & Creative Arts Deakin University, Melbourne, Austrailia As a multiracial artist, I am interested in how people…
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ENGLISH 261E: Mixed Race Literature in the U.S. and South Africa (seminar) Stanford University Department of English Winter Quarter, 2010-2011 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Grant Parker, Associate Professor of Classics Stanford Univeristy As scholar Werner Sollors recently suggested, novels, poems,…
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Since the Middle Ages, Africans have lived in Germany as slaves and scholars, guest workers and refugees.
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Blackness, Hypodescent, and Essentialism: Commentary on McPherson and Shelby’s “Blackness and Blood”
Blackness, Hypodescent, and Essentialism: Commentary on McPherson and Shelby’s “Blackness and Blood” Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy Volume 1, Number 1, May 2005 Gregory Velazco y Trianosky, Professor of Philosopy California State University, Northridge In their fascinating and thoughtful paper, McPherson and Shelby seek to defend everyday African American understandings of their own identity…
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West Indian literary representations of local Chinese populations illuminate concepts of national belonging
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Ethics of Racial Identity Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association 108th Annual Conference 2010-11-13 through 2010-11-14 Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii Presiding Officer: Adebe DeRango-Adem, York University Barack Obama benefited from the spirit of tolerance that defined Hawaii’s racial climate. This special session envisions a mixed-race literature in the age of Obama that forwards not solely…