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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Review: ‘An Octoroon,’ a Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Comedy About Race The New York Times 2015-02-26 Ben Brantley, Chief Theater Critic Walking on a stage covered with cotton balls is a tricky business. It’s all too easy to slip into a pratfall. And forget about running or dancing or hopping like a bunny, as the characters sometimes…
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Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology University of Minnesota Press February 2015 240 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-8730-5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-8726-8 Michelle M. Wright, Associate Professor of Black European and African Diaspora Studies Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois What does it mean to be Black? If Blackness is not biological…
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Fresh Off the Boat Is Not Science Fiction David Shih 2015-02-10 David Shih, Associate Professor of English University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire I have always known that moment of disappearance and the even uglier truth is that I have long treasured it. That always honorable-seeming absence. It appears I can go anywhere I wish. Is…
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One Playwright’s ‘Obligation’ To Confront Race And Identity In The U.S. Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity All Things Considered National Public Radio 2015-02-16 Jeff Lunden Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins may be only 30 years old, but he’s already compiled an impressive resume. His theatrical works, which look at race and identity in America,…
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“Charcoal and Cinnamon” explores the continuing redefinition of women of African descent in the Caribbean, focusing on the manner in which literature has influenced their treatment and contributed to the formation of their shifting identities.
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Identity as Skin Color: Performing a “White” Identity in Caucasia Scholars: Journal of Undergraduate Research Issue 16 – Winter 2011 McKendree University Online Journal of Undergraduate Research Lebanon, Illinois Anastasia Bierman ‘My body would fill in the blanks, tell me who I should become, and I would let it speak for me,’ says Birdie Lee,…
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Association for Critical Race Art History: Building a Multiracial American Past CAA 103rd Annual Conference College Art Association New York, New York 2015-02-11 through 2015-02-14 Session Location/Time: New York Hilton Midtown 2nd Floor, Sutton Parlor Center 1335 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10019 2015-02-11, 12:30-14:00 EST (Local Time) Charles Paxson, Learning is…
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The mixed-race girl’s guide to the art of passing: racial simulations in Danzy Senna’s Caucasia and Nella Larsen’s Quicksand Florida Atlantic University May 2014 65 pages Gyasi S. Byng A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of…
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Rewriting the Passing Novel: Danzy Senna’s Caucasia The Griot Volume 26, Issue 2, Fall (October 2007) 14 pages Kathryn Rummell, Professor of English California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Passing (here, signifying African Americans passing for whites) has long been a fixture of the American social landscape. Passers have masqueraded for a variety of…
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While the name Archibald Motley brings instant recognition only to specialized scholars, two of Motley’s paintings are so well known that they have become, for many, visual embodiments of the Harlem Renaissance. Motley’s “The Octoroon Girl” (1925) and “Blues” (1929) have served as cover art for several editions of Harlem Renaissance literature, anthologies, and literary…