Mixed Race Studies

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  • Language variation, audience design, and racial identity: an analysis of discourse in Danzy Senna’s “Caucasia”

    Language variation, audience design, and racial identity: an analysis of discourse in Danzy Senna’s “Caucasia” Purdue University 2015 81 pages ISBN: 9781339183824 Rachelle R. Henderson Previous studies examining sociolinguistic language variation, race, and identity focus primarily on self-defining monoracial audiences. Additionally, previous studies examining mixed race identity in interracial literature use traditional literary or historical…

  • Identity Crisis for the Creole Woman: A Search for Self in Wide Sargasso Sea

    Identity Crisis for the Creole Woman: A Search for Self in Wide Sargasso Sea McKendree University Scholars Journal Lebanon, Illinois Issue 10, Winter 2008 Stephanie Coartney “‘And how will you like that’ I thought, as I kissed him. ‘How will you like being made exactly like other people?’” (Rhys 22). In this excerpt from Jean…

  • Unwed Mothers, Race, and Transgression in William Faulkner’s Novels

    Unwed Mothers, Race, and Transgression in William Faulkner’s Novels McKendree University Scholars Journal Lebanon, Illinois Issue 24, Winter 2015 16 pages Mindy Allen As a modernist writer, William Faulkner is conflicted with the autonomy he can allow for his female characters, particularly unmarried mothers. Ideology about women during the early twentieth century, including the debates…

  • The Cry of Black Rage in African American Literature from Frederick Douglass to Richard Wright

    The Cry of Black Rage in African American Literature from Frederick Douglass to Richard Wright Edwin Mellen Press 2013 176 pages ISBN10: 0-7734-4077-1; ISBN13: 978-0-7734-4077-7 Steven Troy Moore, Assistant Professor of Language and Literature Abilene Christian University, Abilene Texas This book examines the contrasting experiences of black rage that is exhibited in the writings of…

  • Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture

    Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture Rutgers University Press 2015-05-12 256 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-7070-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-7069-3 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-7071-6 epub ISBN: 978-0-8135-7537-7 Jennifer Ann Ho, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an…

  • Machado de Assis: A Literary Life

    Machado de Assis: A Literary Life Yale University Press 2015-05-26 360 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 2 b/w illus. ISBN: 9780300180824 K. David Jackson, Professor of Portuguese and Director of Undergraduate Studies of Portuguese Yale University Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is widely regarded as Brazil’s…

  • Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865

    Through its author’s contention that the Haitian revolutionary wars were incessantly racialized by four constantly recurring racial tropes—the ‘monstrous hybrid’, the ‘tropical temptress’, the ‘tragic mulatto/a’, and the ‘mulatto legend of history’, Tropics of Haiti shows the ways in which the nineteenth-century tendency to understand Haiti’s revolution in primarily racial terms has affected present day…

  • She Is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body

    “She is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body” traces the history of the Cuban mulata and her association with hips, sensuality and popular dance. It examines how the mulata choreographs her racialised identity through her hips and enacts an embodied theory called hip(g)nosis

  • Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness

    Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness Northwestern University Press May 2006 488 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Paper ISBN: ISBN 978-0-8101-1971-0 Edited by: Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (1951-2015), Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Russian Literature and Culture Barnard College Columbia University, New York, New York Nicole Svobodny, Assistant Dean, College of…

  • Putting History in Its Place: An Interview with Bernardine Evaristo

    Putting History in Its Place: An Interview with Bernardine Evaristo Contemporary Women’s Writing Volume 9 Issue 3 November 2015 pages 433-448 DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpv003 Jennifer Gustar, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada Bernardine Evaristo was born in Woolwich, London, to an English mother of Irish descent…