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 De(con)struction of Black/White Binaries: Critiques of Passing in Charles Waddell Chesnutt’s “The Wife of His Youth” and Other Stories of the Color Line Callaloo Volume 37, Number 3, Summer 2014 pages 676-691 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2014.0106 Tanfer Emin Tunç, Professor of American Culture and Literature Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey When asked to elaborate on the “Negro…
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Reading Race in Nella Larsen’s Passing and the Rhinelander Case African American Review Voluume 46, Numbers 2-3, Summer/Fall 2013 pages 345-361 DOI: 10.1353/afa.2013.0076 Rebecca Nisetich, Assistant Director, Honors Program University of Southern Maine Toward the end of Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929), the protagonist Irene Redfield imagines how her friend Clare Kendry’s racist husband might react…
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“Where a Man is a Man”?: Ancestral Possibilities in Charles Chesnutt’s Paul Marchand, F.M.C. African American Review Volume 46, Numbers 2-3, Summer/Fall 2013 pages 397-411 DOI: 10.1353/afa.2013.0048 Susan M. Marren, Associate Professor University of Arkansas This essay reads Charles Chesnutt’s Paul Marchand, F.M.C. not as a historical romance (as Chesnutt’s contemporaneous publishers deemed it) but…
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In “The Octoroon”—the most controversial play of his career—Boucicault addresses the sensitive topic of race and slavery. George Peyton inherits a plantation, and falls in love with an octoroon—a person one-eighth African American, and thus, in 1859 Louisiana, legally a slave.
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One Drop of a Father’s Love Biracials Learning About African-American Culture (B.L.A.A.C) Sunday, 2014-06-15 Zebulon Miletsky, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Stony Brook University, State University of New York This week I had the pleasure of attending a one-woman show by Television and Film actress, Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, called “One Drop of Love” a multimedia…
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Positioning of the Mixed Race Author and Mixed Race Protagonist in British Children’s Literature Critical Pedagogies: Equality and Diversity in a Changing Institution 2014-07-23 Ludovic Foster, Ph.D. Candidate Department Gender Studies University of Sussex, United Kingdom I would like to examine a few of the issues around the positioning of the mixed race child, and…
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Elective Race: Recognizing Race Discrimination in the Era of Racial Self-Identification Georgetown Law Journal Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Volume 102, Issue 5 (2014) pages 1501-1572 Camille Gear Rich, Associate Professor of Law University of Southern California, Gould School of Law This Article posits that we are in a key moment of discursive and ideological transition,…
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Radical Love: A Transatlantic Dialogue about Race and Mixed Race Asian American Literary Review Volume 4, Issue 2, Pandora’s Box (2013) pages 15-26 Daniel McNeil, Ida B. Wells-Barnett Professor of African and Black Diaspora Studies DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois Leanne Taylor, Assistant Professor of Education Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada Boy meets girl. Boy…
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Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century. Colleen C. O’Brien. [Orihuela] MELUS: Multi-Ethnic LIterature of the United States Published Online: 2014-06-05 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlu027 Sharada Balachandran Orihuela, Assistant Professor of English University of Maryland Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century. Colleen C. O’Brien. Charlottesville: University…