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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“Not a Moor exactly”: Shakespeare, Serial, and Modern Constructions of Race Shakespeare Quarterly Volume 67, Number 1, 2016 pages 30-50 DOI: 10.1353/shq.2016.0009 Vanessa Corredera, Assistant Professor of English Andrews University, Berrien Springs Michigan As scholars of early modern literature know, Renaissance constructions of alterity were inconsistent and varied. This critical consensus regarding the fluidity of…
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Puerto Rico’s colonial relationship with the United States and its history of intermixture of native, African, and Spanish inhabitants has prompted inconsistent narratives about race and power in the colonial territory.
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“If You Is White, You’s Alright. . . .” Stories About Colorism in America Washington University Global Studies Law Review Volume 14, Issue 4: Global Perspectives on Colorism (Symposium Edition) (2015) pages 585-607 Kimberly Jade Norwood, Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law; Professor of African & African American Studies Washington University School of Law, St.…
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This paper examines the scientific construction of racial differences through the lens of early twentieth-century bioanthropological studies of American Negro skeletal and living population samples.
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Machado de Assis and Female Characterization: The Novels Bucknell University Press 2015 252 pages ISBN 9781611486209 Earl E. Fitz, Professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and Comparative Literature Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt, Tennessee This book examines the nature and function of the main female characters in the nine novels of Machado de Assis. The basic argument is that…