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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LAURA KINA Blue Hawai’i The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture Brooklyn, New York 2015-04-02 Jonathan Goodman HAROLD B. LEMMERMAN GALLERY, NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY JANUARY 27 – MARCH 3, 2015 As an Asian-American painter of mixed background, Laura Kina creates work that is as culturally relevant as it is emotionally resonant.…
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Mixed-race Migration and Adoption in Gish Jen’s The Love Wife Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée Volume 42, Issue 1, Mars 2015 pages 45-56 Jenny Wen-chuan Chu National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan Migration is a way of geographic movement. It involves a sense of belonging, nostalgia and diaspora issues. Besides,…
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Yes, the new ‘Daily Show’ host is black. And he’s spent his career making fun of African Americans. The Washington Post 2015-03-31 Wendy Todd, Social Media Coordinator St. Louis Public Radio, St. Louis, Missouri So much for that “fresh perspective” on race. News that Trevor Noah would replace Jon Stewart as the new host of…
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Blood Work: Imagining Race in American Literature, 1890-1940 Louisiana State University Press January 2015 240 pages 5.50 x 8.50 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780807157848 Shawn Salvant, Assistant Professor of English and African American University of Connecticut The invocation of blood—as both an image and a concept—has long been critical in the formation of American racism. In…
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The Tragic Immigrant: Duality, Hybridity and the Discovery of Blackness in Mark Twain and James Weldon Johnson ELH Volume 82, Number 1, Spring 2015 pages 211-249 DOI: 10.1353/elh.2015.0001 Richard Hardack Around the turn of the twentieth-century, a number of American writers imagined that European culture could help them develop an external perspective with which to…
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John Rollin Ridge’s Joaquín Murieta: Sensation, Hispanicism, and Cosmopolitanism Western American Literature Volume 49, Number 4, Winter 2015 pages 321-349 DOI: 10.1353/wal.2015.0008 John C. Havard, Assistant Professor Department of English and Philosophy Auburn University, Montgomery, Alabama The mixed-race Cherokee poet, journalist, and novelist John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, the Celebrated…
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The Great Character theme for the month: Rebel. Today: Sam White from “Dear White People” (2014), written and directed by Justin Simien.
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Finding Grafton Tyler Brown, African American Artist Keith Skinner: Writer: Renegade Image: Fiction, memoir, travel & essays 2014-05-25 Keith Skinner I had never heard of Grafton Tyler Brown before. I was just trying to develop a character for my historical novel-in-progress, The Relentless Harvest. The Search for a Character It all started with a desire…
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Signifying without Specifying: Racial Discourse in the Age of Obama Rutgers University Press 2011-11-01 218 Pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-5143-2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-5144-9 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8135-5210-1 Stephanie Li, Professor of English Indiana University, Bloomington On the campaign trail, Barack Obama faced a difficult task—rallying African American voters while resisting his opponents’ attempts to frame him as…
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Beyond The Chinese Connection: Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production by Crystal S. Anderson (review) Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 18, Number 1, February 2015 pages 107-109 DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2015.0003 Edlie Wong, Associate Professor of English University of Maryland Anderson, Crystal S., Beyond The Chinese Connection: Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2013). Afro-Asian…