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 this essay, I propose that Larsen turns to Freudian theory to analyze the psychological dimension of racial repression. As Thadious Davis observes, Larsen was “very much aware of Freud, Jung, and their works” (329), and the cornerstone of Freud’s theory is repression. According to Freud, “the essence of repression lies simply in turning something…
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“Sovereign Joy” explores the performance of festive black kings and queens among Afro-Mexicans between 1539 and 1640.
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“The Vanishing Half” deals with the theme of racial “passing” in the 1950s. Passing is different today, but still presents a choice between safety and authenticity.
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Though a means of escaping and undermining racial injustice, the practice comes with own set of costs and sacrifices.
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“Ethnic Positioning in Southwestern Mixed Heritage Writing” explores how Southwestern writers and visual artists provide an opportunity to turn a stigmatized identity into a self-conscious holder of valuable assets, cultural attitudes, and memories.
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This study brings race and the literary tradition of romance into dialogue.
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Performance and Identity in Adrian Piper’s Work InMedia: The French Journal of Media Studies Volume 8, Number 2 (2020) DOI: 10.4000/inmedia.2754 17 pages Antonia Rigaud, Associate Professor of American Studies Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris France Lorna Simpson Head On Ice #3 2016 Ink and screenprint on gessoed fiberglass Unique 67 x 50 x 1 3/8…
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Mulattos sought autonomy by forming alliances with Europeans—be they Spanish, English, French or Dutch—as well as with Amerindian communities, to the extent that these relationships afforded them relative autonomy within hierarchical colonial power structures. Mulattos’ oral and embodied discourses within Gage’s text exemplify their agency and shifting alliances.