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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In today’s post, I’d like to explore those questions. By the end of considering them, I hope we will understand northeastern N.C.’s history a little better and understand where Edna Ferber found at least some of the inspiration for her most popular and enduring literary work…
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“Miyazaki tells us something about bodies in flux: There is no easy answer; only the conflict, the question.”
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Adrian Piper’s art plays with identity and confronts defensiveness.
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Adrian Piper as African American Artist American Art Volume 20, Number 3 (Fall 2006) DOI: 10.1086/511097 John P. Bowles, Associate Professor of African American Art History University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill African‐American artist Adrian Piper has repeatedly staged her own racial transformation in order to unsettle the racist attitudes of her artworks’ American…
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Nella Larsen’s Etiquette Lesson: Small Talk, Racial Passing, and the Novel of Manners Novel: A Forum on Fiction Volume 51, Issue 1 (2018-05-01) pages 1-16 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-4357365 Matthew Krumholtz Department of English Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey This essay explores how novelists of the Harlem Renaissance deploy small talk to disrupt racial identification. Nella Larsen’s…
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Photographer chronicles biracial Koreans living as strangers in homeland
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Jhené Aiko is a part of a small but seemingly growing cohort of multiracial and multicultural performers who are embedded in African American and Latinx communities yet subtly, and sometimes not so subtly, remind audiences through their music, performance, and public personas that they are “different” and thus unique. In the hyper-competitive music industry, being…
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This book explores the Spanish elite’s fixation on social and racial ‘passing’ and ‘passers’, as represented in a wide range of texts. It examines literary and non-literary works produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that express the dominant Spaniards’ anxiety that socially mobile lowborns, Conversos (converted Jews), and Moriscos (converted Muslims) could impersonate and…
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Austrian author Hugo Bettauer’s novel might have been lost to the ages had Peter Höyng, an associate professor of German studies in Emory College, not stumbled across it in the Austrian National Library while doing scholarly research on the author in 2002.
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Jean Toomer’s “Cane” was greeted in 1923 by influential critics as the brilliant beginning of a literary career. Many stressed the “authenticity” of Toomer’s African Americans and the lyrical voice with which he conjured them into being. His treatment of black characters contrasted starkly with both the stereotypes of earlier work by (mostly) white authors…