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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A Mestiza in the Borderlands: Margarita Cota-Cárdenas Puppet Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies Volume 34, Number 1 (June 2012) pages 47-62 Ana María Manzanas Calvo Department of American Literature and Culture Universidad de Salamanca, Spain The article explores the formal and conceptual complexities of a novella that has so far escaped…
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English 49, “Whiteness” and Racial Difference Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania Spring 1997 Peter Schmidt, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English Literature A look at the conflicted ways in which “racial” identities and differences have been constructed in past and contemporary cultures, especially in the U.S. Topics given emphasis in the syllabus include why saying…
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EN-255 Passing Narratives Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania Fall Semester Passing narratives investigate how the boundaries of identity can be reimagined. Most often depicting racial passing (when a person “passes for” someone of another race), these narratives also can be about performing another gender or sexual identity. In this course, we will examine a variety of…
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Here, There, and In Between: Travel as Metaphor in Mixed Race Narratives of the Harlem Renaissance University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2014-05-09 Colin Enriquez English Department Created to comment on Antebellum and Reconstruction literature, the tragic mulatto concept is habitually applied to eras beyond the 19th century. The tragic mulatto has become an end rather than…
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Transforming Three Sisters: A Hapa Family in Chekhov’s Modern Classic Asian American Literature: Discourses and Pedagogies Volume 3 (2012): Special Issue: Mixed Heritage Asian American Literature pages 130-146 Elizabeth Liang “All right, let’s agree that this town is backward and vulgar, and let’s suppose now that out of all its thousands of inhabitants there are…
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In 1963, James Baldwin wrote two essays that examined the role of race and racism in the history of America. Published in The New Yorker, Baldwin’s first essay, written in the form of a letter to his fourteen-year-old nephew on the 100th anniversary of Emancipation explained “the crux of [his] dispute with [his] country”…