Mixed Race Studies

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  • Dislocating the Color Line: Identity, Hybridity, and Singularity in African-American Narrative

    Dislocating the Color Line: Identity, Hybridity, and Singularity in African-American Narrative Stanford University Press 1997 280 pages Cloth ISBN-10: 0804727740; ISBN-13: 9780804727747 Paper ISBN-10: 0804727759; ISBN-13: 9780804727754 Samira Kawash, Associate Professor Women’s and Gender Studies Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Inquiries into the meaning and force of race in American culture have largely…

  • One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820–1870

    One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820–1870 University of Massachusetts Press June 2005 288 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-1-55849-483-1 Karen Woods Weierman, Associate Professor of English Worcester State University Examines the roots of a pernicious and persistent American taboo The proscription against interracial marriage was for many years a flashpoint…

  • Why Are People Different?: Multiracial Families in Picture Books and the Dialogue of Difference

    Why Are People Different?: Multiracial Families in Picture Books and the Dialogue of Difference The Lion and the Unicorn Volume 25, Number 3 September 2001 pp. 412-426 E-ISSN: 1080-6563 Print ISSN: 0147-2593 DOI: 10.1353/uni.2001.0037 Karen Sands-O’Connor The issue of race has often been contentious in children’s literature, from controversies over Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,…

  • Inexacting Whiteness: Blanqueamiento as a Gender-Specific Trope in the Nineteenth Century

    Inexacting Whiteness: Blanqueamiento as a Gender-Specific Trope in the Nineteenth Century Cuban Studies Volume 36, 2005 pages 105-128 E-ISSN: 1548-2464 Print ISSN: 0361-4441 DOI: 10.1353/cub.2005.0033 Gema R. Guevara, Associate Professor, Languages & Literature and Associate Professor, Spanish Section University of Utah In Cuba, race, nation, and popular music were inextricably linked to the earliest formulations…

  • ‘Toubab La!’ Literary Representations of Mixed-Race Characters in the African Diaspora

    ‘Toubab La!’ Literary Representations of Mixed-Race Characters in the African Diaspora Cambridge Scholars Publishing July 2007 453 pages ISBN13: 9781847182319 ISBN: 1-84718-231-3 Ginette Curry, Professor of English Florida International University The book is an examination of mixed-race characters from writers in the United States, The French and British Caribbean islands (Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Lucia and…

  • The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean

    The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean Duke University Press May 2005 408 pages 19 b&w photographs Cloth ISBN: 0-8223-3453-4, ISBN13 978-0-8223-3453-8 Paperback ISBN: 0-8223-3465-8, ISBN13 978-0-8223-3465-1 Doris Garraway, Associate Professor of French Northwestern University Presenting incisive original readings of French writing about the Caribbean from the inception of colonization in the 1640s…

  • Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture

    As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in “The Souls of Black Folk,” the fiction of the color line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial “order.” Yet the very arbitrariness of this line also gives rise to opportunities for racial “passing,” a practice through which subjects appropriate the terms…

  • Between Totem And Taboo: Black Man, White Woman in Francographic Literature

    Between Totem And Taboo: Black Man, White Woman in Francographic Literature University of Exeter Press 2001 292 pages Hardback ISBN: 9780859896498 BIC Code: 1HFD, 2ADF, 3JF, 3JH, 3JJ Roger Little Between Totem and Taboo picks its way judiciously through a minefield of prejudice, myth and stereotypes.  It is the first book to explore the literary…

  • Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus

    Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus Ohio State University Press July 2008 224 pages 6×9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8142-5168-3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8142-1091-8 CD ISBN: 978-0-8142-9171-9 Margo Natalie Crawford, Associate Professor of English Cornell University After the “Black is Beautiful” movement of the 1960s, black body politics have been overdetermined by both the familiar fetishism of light…

  • An Inter-Racial Love Story in Fact and Fiction: William and Mary King Allen’s Marriage and Louisa May Alcott’s Tale, ‘M.L.’

    An Inter-Racial Love Story in Fact and Fiction: William and Mary King Allen’s Marriage and Louisa May Alcott’s Tale, ‘M.L.’ History Workshop Journal 2002 Volume 53, Number 1 pages 17-42 DOI: 10.1093/hwj/53.1.17 Sarah Elbert, Professor Emerita of History The State University of New York, Binghamton William G. Allen, the child of a free mulatto mother…