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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American demands, African treasures, Mixed possibilities The African Diaspora Archaeology Network University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign December 2006 Newsletter ISSN: 1933-8651 16 pages Daniel R. McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom In the 1990s, many Americans sought to cast themselves as heroic defenders of the liberal arts by condemning Afrocentricity. This…
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Women-Loving Women: Queering Black Urban Space during the Harlem Renaissance Women’s Studies 197: Senior Seminar 2010-06-07 Professor Lilith Mahmud Samantha Tenorio The experience of black “women-loving-women” during the Harlem Renaissance is directly influenced by what Kimberlé Crenshaw terms intersectional identity, or their positioning in the social hierarchies of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation that…
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Multiculturalism and Morphing in “I’m Not There” (Haynes, 2007) Wide Screen Volume 2, Number 1, June 2010 15 pages ISSN: 1757-3920 Published by Subaltern Media Zélie Asava ‘Passing’ narratives question fixed social categorisations and prove the possibility of self-determination, which is why they are such a popular literary and cinematic trope. This article explores ‘passing’…
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Multiple choice: Literary racial formations of mixed race Americans of Asian descent Rice University May 2001 194 pages Shannon T. Leonard Rice University A thesis submitted in partial fulfullment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy This dissertation reassesses key paradigms of Asian American literary studies in the interest of critically accounting for…
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Coloring History and Mixing Race in Levina Urbino’s ‘Sunshine in the Palace and Cottage’ and Louise Heaven’s ‘In Bonds’ Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers Volume 24, Number 2 (2007) E-ISSN: 1534-0643, Print ISSN: 0748-4321 DOI: 10.1353/leg.2007.0018 Eric Gardner, Professor of English Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan While the figure of the “tragic mulatta”…
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Was first black priest black enough? Chicago Tribune 2010-05-02 Manya A. Brachear, Tribune reporter Healy, son of a plantation owner, isn’t mentioned as often as Tolton, who is being pushed for sainthood More than a year after some African-Americans scrutinized the blackness of the nation’s first black president, America’s Catholics are now wrestling with the…
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‘Fühlst du dich als Deutsche oder als Afrikanerin?’: May Ayim’s Search for an Afro-German Identity in her Poetry and Essays German Life and Letters Volume 59 Issue 4 (October 2006) Pages 500-514 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0483.2006.00364.x Jennifer Michaels, Professor of German; Samuel R. and Marie-Louise Rosenthal Professor of Humanities Grinnell College, Iowa Until her suicide in 1996, May…