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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Mistura for the fans: performing mixed-race Japanese Brazilianness in Japan Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 36, Issue 6, 2015 pages 710-728 DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2015.1095714 Zelideth María Rivas, Assistant Professor of Japanese Department of Modern Languages Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia In this article, I examine fans’ consumption of mixed-race Japanese Brazilian female bodies in Japan. The article…
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Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora by Bénédicte Boisseron (review) The Americas Volume 72, Number 4, October 2015 pages 661-664 John Patrick Walsh, Assistant Professor of French University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania In this outstanding book, Bénédicte Boisseron challenges received ideas on Caribbean literature and critical paradigms that have sedimented…
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Writing Reconstruction: Racial Fluidity and National Reunion in A Romance of the Republic ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance Volume 61, Number 4, 2015 (No. 241 O.S.) pages 631-666 DOI: 10.1353/esq.2015.0017 Lori Robison, Associate Professor of English University of North Dakota Speaking to a nation traumatized by the divisive war and anxious to find…
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British Women Writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1785-1835 Ashgate Publishing November 2014 160 pages 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4724-3088-5 eBook PDF ISBN: 978-1-4724-3089-2 eBook ePUB ISBN: 978-1-4724-3090-8 Kathryn S. Freeman, Associate Professor of English University of Miami, Miami, Florida In her study of newly recovered works by British women, Kathryn Freeman…
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Using cultural theory, author R. Bruce Brasell investigates issues surrounding the discursive presentation of the American South as biracial and explores its manifestation in documentary films, including such works as “Tell about the South,” “bro•ken/ground,” and “Family Name.”
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“Watch me go invisible”: Representing Racial Passing in Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece’s Incognegro South Central Review Volume 32, Number 3, Fall 2015 pages 45-69 Sinéad Moynihan, Senior Lecturer University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom This essay examines the potential of the graphic novel as a vehicle to explore one of the most enduring…
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PART 1: Dispatches from Dream City: Zadie Smith and Barack Obama Electric Lit 2010-10-19 The Editor Reading and re-reading Zadie Smith’s spookily empathetic essay about Dreams of My Father and the natural linguistic flexibility of the biracial, upwardly mobile figure, the inevitable thought occurred to me: Is Zadie Smith the Barack Obama of literature? Consider…
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Between Two Worlds: Racial Identity in Alice Perrin’s The Stronger Claim Victorian Literature and Culture Volume 42, Special Issue 3, September 2014 pages 491-508 DOI: 10.1017/S1060150314000114 Melissa Edmundson Makala University of South Carolina Like many Anglo-Indian novelists of her generation, Alice Perrin (1867–1934) gained fame through the publication and popular reception of several domestic novels…
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“Most Fitting Companions”: Making Mixed-Race Bodies Visible in Antebellum Public Spaces Theatre Survey Volume 56, Issue 2, May 2015 pages 138-165 DOI: 10.1017/S0040557415000046 Lisa Merrill, Professor of Speech Communication, Rhetoric, Performance Studies Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York In the years leading up to the U.S. Civil War, free and fugitive persons of color were aware…