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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Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century University of Virginia Press October 2013 224 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 9780813934884 Paper ISBN: 9780813934891 Ebook ISBN: 9780813934907 Colleen C. O’Brien, Associate Professor of English University of South Carolina, Upstate As in many literatures of the New World grappling with issues…
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Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: Exploring Dr. Seuss’s Racial Imagination Children’s Literature Volume 42, 2014 pages 71-98 DOI: 10.1353/chl.2014.0019 Philip Nel, Distinguished Professor of English Kansas State University In 1955, Dr. Seuss and William Spaulding—director of Houghton Mifflin’s educational division—stepped into the publisher’s elevator at 2 Park Street in Boston. As Seuss’s biographers…
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New Man in the Tropics: The Nietzschean Roots of Gilberto Freyre’s Multiracial Identity Concept Luso-Brazilian Review Volume 51, Number 1, 2014 pages 93-111 DOI: 10.1353/lbr.2014.0005 Jeroen Dewulf, Associate Professor of German University of California, Berkeley Casa-grande & Senzala (1933), a obra secular de Gilberto Freyre, foi traditionalmente interpretado de um ponto de vista sociólogo e…
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The Politics of Race in Panama: Afro-Hispanic and West Indian Literary Discourses of Contention University Press of Florida 2014-04-15 200 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-4986-1 Sonja Stephenson Watson, Associate Professor of Spanish University of Texas, Arlington This volume tells the story of two cultural groups: Afro-Hispanics, whose ancestors came to Panama as…
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‘Black Atlantic’ Cultural Politics as Reflected in Panamanian Literature University of Tennesee, Knoxville August 2005 256 pages Sonja Stephenson Watson A Dissertation Presented for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree The diaspora experience is characterized by hybridity, diversity and above all, difference. The nature of the diaspora experience therefore precludes an exclusive articulation of identity. Black…
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“MUTT” at Impact Theatre—laughs, topic, and a great cast make it worth it Examinier.com 2014-05-12 John A. McMullen II Oakland Theater Examiner Sometimes a mediocre play jumps to life when you assemble an extraordinary cast with a primo director. Christopher Chen’s “MUTT” at Impact Theatre means to be sardonic and poignant. Some of the…
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Imitation of Life, one of the classic narratives of racial passing, originated as a 1933 novel by Jewish writer Fannie Hurst, but it is perhaps best known as the 1959 melodrama directed by Douglas Sirk inducing finale of the Sirk film, the prodigal black daughter, who has crossed the color line and passed for white, returns home…
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The Theme of “Passing” in the Novels of James Weldon Johnson and Nella Larsen International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies (IJIMS) Volume 1, Number 4 (2014) pages 53-58 ISSN: 2348-0343 Dinesh Babu. P. Department of English Ramanujan College (University of Delhi), Kalkaji, New Delhi, India The depiction of the experience of a very fair-skinned…
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Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 by Dagmar Schultz (review) African Studies Review Volume 57, Number 1, April 2014 pages 237-238 DOI: 10.1353/arw.2014.0038 Patricia-Pia Célérier, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 is a 79-minute documentary in English and German,…
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The Hunter and the Farmer: Jean Toomer’s Depression-Era Masculinist Writings AmeriQuests Volume 6, Number 1 (2008) Anastasia C. Curwood, Visiting Fellow James Weldon Johnson Institute for Race and Difference Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia In 1937, after he had written the novel Cane, left the African-American culture of Harlem, studied under the mystic Georges Gurdjieff in…