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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Black and Jewish: Language and Multiple Strategies for Self-Presentation American Jewish History Volume 100, Number 1, January 2016 pages 51-71 DOI: 10.1353/ajh.2016.0001 Sarah Bunin Benor, Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles, California In January 2014, hip-hop star Drake hosted “Saturday Night Live” (SNL), opening with a skit…
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Quicksand and Passing – Nella Larsen The Writes of Woman: Reviews of books by female writers 2015-11-24 Naomi Frisby Quicksand and Passing are two novellas packaged together and reissued by Serpent’s Tale in the UK. They both share the key theme of being a woman of colour in America early in the twentieth century but…
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Adrian Piper, the uncompromising Berlin-based American artist and philosopher whose work applies the rigorous strictures of conceptual art to questions of race and identity, was awarded a Golden Lion award at the 56th Venice Biennale earlier this month. Piper received the honor for her participation in “All the World’s Futures,” where she showed The Probable…
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The artist and philosopher Adrian Piper’s direct and subtly intellectual approach to unpacking the tangled issues of race, gender, identity, and belonging has inspired a generation of socially-conscious artists across all media, although her impact is just now being fully recognized: she was the recipient of the Golden Lion for best artist at this year’s…
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Hairy Paws and Bald Heads: Anxiety and Authority in W. D. Howells’ An Imperative Duty American Literary Realism Volume 48, Number 2, Winter 2016 pages 95-111 James Weaver, Assistant Professor of English Denison University, Granville, Ohio Intensely concerned with the cultural and personal implications of miscegenation and its resultant social upheaval, W. D. Howells’ An…
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Racial Fictions and the Cultural Work of Genre in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars
Racial Fictions and the Cultural Work of Genre in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars American Literary Realism Volume 48, Number 2, Winter 2016 pages 128-146 Melissa Asher Rauterkus, Assistant Professor of English University of Alabama, Birmingham I intend to record my impressions of men and things, and such incidents or conversations which…
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Passing for what you are not—whether it is mulattos passing as white, Jews passing as Christian, or drag queens passing as women–can be a method of protection or self-defense. But it can also be a uniquely pleasurable experience, one that trades on the erotics of secrecy and revelation. It is precisely passing’s radical playfulness, the…
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Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race New York University Press April 2014 273 pages 12 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9781479812981 Paper ISBN: 9781479859498 Ellen Samuels, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and English University of Wisconsin, Madison In the mid-nineteenth-century United States, as it became increasingly difficult to distinguish between bodies understood as black, white,…
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From Necessity to Possibility: Postmodern and Heideggerian Aspects of Passing and Identity in Early African American Novels From 1853 to 1912 Sage Open October-December 2015 pages 1-15 DOI: 10.1177/2158244015618234 Charles Cullum Department of English Worcester State University, Worcester, Massachusetts This article applies theories of fragmented postmodern identity and Heidegger’s modes of existence and concept of…