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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Race marks: Miscegenation in nineteenth-century American fiction University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1997 195 pages Kimberly Anne Hicks This dissertation examines the process of miscegenation in the work of four authors who occupy pivotal positions in American writing about race. It is concerned with a variety of fictional and non-fictional texts produced by William Wells Brown,…
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Acts of Intercourse: “Miscegenation” in three 19th Century American Novels American Studies in Scandinavia Volume 27 (1995) pages 126-141 Domhnall Mitchell, Professor of English Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway Until this period of the evening, the duties of hospitality and the observances of religion had prevented familiar discourse. But the regular offices…
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Zadie Smith: Critical Essays Peter Lang Publishing Group March 2008 221 pages Paparback ISBN: 9978-0-8204-8806-6 Edited by: Tracey L. Walters, Associate Professor of Literature Stony Brook University Zadie Smith: Critical Essays is a timely collection of critical articles examining how Zadie Smith‘s novels and short stories interrogate race, postcolonialism, and identity. Essays explore the various…
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“Assimilating the Primitive”: Parallel Dialogues on Racial Miscegenation in Revolutionary Mexico Peter Lang Publishing Group 2004 179 pages, 4 tables Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8204-6322-3 Kelley R. Swarthout, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish Colgate University, New York This book examines the Mexican nationalist rhetoric that promoted race mixing as a cultural ideal, placing it within its broader…
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The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination Peter Lang Publishing Group 2004 198 pages ISBN: 978-0-8204-6206-6 Carlyle Van Thompson, Acting Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Education Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York The Tragic Black Buck examines the phenomenon, often paradoxical, of black males passing for white…
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Multiracial Children in Child Development Textbooks Early Childhood Education Journal Volume 35, Number 3 (December, 2007) Pages 253-259 Print ISSN: 1082-3301; Online ISSN: 1573-1707 DOI 10.1007/s10643-007-0157-8 Francis Wardle The 2000 US census was the first to allow respondents to check more than one race/ethnic response for their identity. About 6.8 million Americans did so, and…
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In her seminal text Femininity, Susan Brownmiller identifies what can simply be termed the mythic proportions of the female body. Idealized, worshiped, ravaged, and reviled-the female body is forever being measured (usually against the unattainable paradigms of a male imagination) and found lacking. The myth of the female body’s inadequacy is crucial to my discussion…
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Two or Three Spectacular Mulatas and the Queer Pleasures of Overidentification Camera Obscura Volume 23, Number 1 67 (2008) pages 113-143 DOI: 10.1215/02705346-2007-026 Hiram Perez, Assistant professor of English Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Building on feminist and queer scholarship on the relationship of film spectatorship to subjectivity, this essay conjectures subaltern spectatorships of the…