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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“Double Bind / Double Consciousness” in the Poetry of Carmen Colón Pellot and Julia de Burgos Cincinnati Romance Review Volume 30 (Winter 2011) pages 69-82 Sonja Stephenson Watson, Director of the Women’s & Gender Studies Program; Associate Professor of Spanish University of Texas, Arlington Carmen Colón Pellot and Julia de Burgos constructed a female literary…
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In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen Dartmouth College Press 2017-01-03 296 pages 10 illus. 6 1/8 x 9 1/4″ Paperback ISBN: 978-1-5126-0019-3 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-5126-0018-6 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-5126-0020-9 Samuele F. S. Pardini, Associate Professor of Italian Department of World Languages and Cultures…
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Book Reviews: Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist [Geiger Review] Comparative Civilizations Review Volume 75, Number 75, Fall 2016 Article 11 pages 125-126 Pedro Geiger G. Reginald Daniel, Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania University Press, 2012 The long and excellent book by Reginald…
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A Comic’s Secret Southern Story Below The Line Garden & Gun 2016-12-13 CJ Lotz A panel from “Krazy Kat.” Courtesy Krazy Before “The Far Side,” “Calvin and Hobbes,” or even Mickey Mouse, one cartoon stole the show. From 1913 to 1944, a panel called “Krazy Kat” ran in newspapers across the country and counted “Peanuts” creator…
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Feeling Cosmopolitan: Strategic Empathy in Charles W. Chesnutt’s Paul Marchand, F.M.C. MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States) Published online: 2016-12-10 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlw046 Alexa Weik von Mossner, Assistant Professor University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria “By modern research the unity of the human race has been proved,” asserts Charles W. Chesnutt in “The Future American” (122).…
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The Prism of Race: W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and the Colored World of Cedric Dover [Silkey Review] Journal of American History Volume 103, Issue 3, December 2016 pages 822-823 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jaw452 Sarah L. Silkey, Associate Professor of History Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania The Prism of Race: W. E. B. Du…
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In the tradition of Schulz and Peanuts, an epic and revelatory biography of Krazy Kat creator George Herriman that explores the turbulent time and place from which he emerged—and the deep secret he explored through his art.
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When Labels Don’t Matter: George Herriman and Krazy Kat The Beat 2016-12-14 Heidi MacDonald, Editor-In-Chief We’ve been writing a bit about Michael Tisserand’s comprehensive new biography of George Herriman, Krazy: A Life in Black and White, but last night I got to hear him talk about it at one of the stops on his mini…