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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The worst racial atrocities that took place in the Jim Crow South were carried out by the medical establishment, not by night riders cloaked in sheets. Indeed, many more African-Americans were killed by racist medical policies than by all the lynch mobs that ever existed. Until the late 1960s, the American Medical Association tacitly endorsed…
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Reading Rivalry, Race, and the Rise of a Southern Middle Class in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory Volume 70, Number 3, Autumn 2014 pages 157-184 DOI: 10.1353/arq.2014.0018 Rachel A. Wise, Postdoctoral Fellow Department of English University of Texas, Austin This essay argues that…
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Black Legacies: Race and the European Middle Ages University Press of Florida 2014-09-02 192 pages 6×9 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-6007-1 Lynn T. Ramey, Associate Professor of French Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Black Legacies looks at color-based prejudice in the medieval and modern texts in order to reveal key similarities. Bringing far-removed time periods into startling…
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At Least We Talk About Race in the USA: Zadie Smith on Writing, Race and Color My American Meltingpot: A Multi-Culti Mix of Identity Politics, Parenting & Pop Culture 2014-09-22 Lori L. Tharps, Associate Professor of Journalism Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania …Last week Wednesday I skipped out of work as early as possible so I…
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One Drop of Love: A Must See Show A Life with Subtitles 2014-09-22 Sarah Quezada Last week I was out of town bowling and doing improv with my co-workers. It was super fun, but my time away from Atlanta meant I was gone on the birthday of my dear friend, Katie. (You may remember her…
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The Octoroon: A Tragic Mulatto Enslaved by 1 Drop The Root 2014-09-09 Image of the Week: A sculpture addresses the ramifications for those who were mixed-race. John Bell, The Octoroon, 1868. Marble, 159.6 cm high. Town Hall, Blackburn, U.K. This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with…
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The Penumbral Spaces of Nella Larsen’s Passing: Undecidable bodies, mobile identities, and the deconstruction of racial boundaries Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography Volume 13, Issue 3, 2006 pages 227-246 DOI: 10.1080/09663690600700972 Perry L. Carter, Assistant Professor of Human Geography Texas Tech University Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel, Passing, is a psychological drama…
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Intervening in the racial imaginary: ‘mixed race’ and resistance in contemporary Australian Literature University of Sydney 2014 243 pages Lyn Sue Dickens A thesis submitted in fulfilment of requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences This thesis examines the extent to which three contemporary Australian novels can be…
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Explores how the trope of racial passing continues to serve as a touchstone for gauging public beliefs and anxieties about race in this multiracial era.
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In a Novelist’s World, You Choose Your Race The New York Times 2014-08-11 Felicia R. Lee In the weak light of a February afternoon, Kelly Thorndike has a strange chance encounter in a Baltimore parking lot with Martin Lipkin, an old friend from high school. But time has brought a big change. The Martin that…