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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These essays consider a wide range of texts and moments from colonial times to the present that raise significant questions about the political motivations inherent in the origins and maintenance of identity categories and boundaries.
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Distancing the Proximate Other: Hybridity and Maud Diver’s Candles in the Wind Twentieth Century Literature Volume 50, Number 2 (Summer, 2004) pages 107-140 Loretta M. Mijares The half-caste out here falls between two stools, that’s the truth. —Maud Diver, Candles in the Wind Miscegenation has long been recognized as one of the recurrent tropes of…
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Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule Ohio State University Press May 2010 161 pages 6×9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8142-1126-7 CD ISBN: 978-0-8142-9224-2 Shuchi Kapila, Associate Professor of English Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa Even though Edward Said’s Orientalism inspired several generations of scholars to study the English novel’s close involvement with…
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Jackie Kay’s Representation of ‘The Broons’: Scotland’s Happy Family eSharp Special Issue: Spinning Scotland: Exploring Literary and Cultural Perspectives (2009) pages 109-143 ISSN: 1742-4542 Mª del Coral Calvo Maturana Universidad de Granada This paper focuses on the contemporary Scottish poet Jackie Kay and the comic strip ‘The Broons’ by studying Jackie Kay’s representation of this…
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The Poet as Cultural Dentist: Ethnicity in the Poetry of Jackie Kay Theory and Practice in English Studies 4 (2005) Proceedings from the Eighth Conference of British, American and Canadian Studies. Brno: Masarykova Univerzita pages 63-67 Pavlína Hácová, Philosophical Faculty Palacky University, Olomouc The acclaimed British poet Jackie Kay (born 1961) belongs to the colourful…
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Boundaries Transgressed: Modernism and miscegenation in Langston Hughes’s “Red-Headed Baby” Atlantic Studies Volume 3, Issue 1 (April 2006) pages 97 – 110 DOI: 10.1080/14788810500525499 Isabel Soto This essay is an expanded and revised version of a paper read at the 8th International Conference On the Short Story in English, organized by the Instituto Universitario de…
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“Des couleurs primitives”: Miscegenation and French Painting of Algeria Visual Resources Volume 24, Issue 3 (2008) pages 273 – 298 DOI: 10.1080/01973760802284638 Peter Benson Miller, Art Historian Rome Art Program The Romantic concept of “local color” refers to a site of painterly experimentation, the application of pigment in the chromatic construction of a picture. The…