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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“Split At The Root”: The Reformation of The Mulatto Hero/Heroine AmeriQuests (Online) Vanderbilt University Volume 6, Number 1 2008-11-18 Tia L. Gafford, Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies Mercer University Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy offers a valuable insight on the development of a holistic and natural model for patriarchy in the 19th…
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Complicating Race or Reproducing Whiteness? Heidi Durrow and The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Gino Michael Pellegrini: Education, Race, Multiraciality, Class & Solidarity 2014-04-13 Gino Michael Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California [This is an excerpt from a paper (currently being revised) that I presented last month at the…
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Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject Duke University Press 2010 344 pages 51 illustrations, incl. 18 in color Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4247-2 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4266-3 Kirsten Pai Buick, Associate Professor of Art History University of New Mexico Child of the Fire is the first book-length…
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Transpacific Mixed-Race Literatures: A Reading and Dialogue (Sawyer Seminar IX) University of Southern California, University Park Campus Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) Room 351/352 Sunday, 2014-04-06, 10:00-17:00 PDT (Local Time) How do Transpacific mixed-race authors inscribe and represent their heritage in their artistic representations? Are there common tropes or literary forms that inform these novels?…
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Empire, Race, and the Debate over the Indian Marriage Market in Elizabeth Hamilton’s Memoirs of Modern Philosophers (1800) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Volume 26, Number 3, Spring 2014 pages 427-454 DOI: 10.1353/ecf.2014.0004 John C. Leffel, Assistant Professor of English State University of New York, Cortland In the late eighteenth century, East India Company stations were characterized as…
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[This short paper was originally written for “Jean Toomer and Politics,” a Special Session Roundtable at the 2012 MLA Conference in Seattle. I have made a few edits.]
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Playing Chinese Whispers: The Official ‘Gossip’ of Racial Whitening in Jorge Amado’s Tenda dos Milagres Forum for Modern Language Studies Volume 50, Issue 2, April 2014 pages 196-211 DOI: 10.1093/fmls/cqu006 Helen Lima de Sousa, Santander Post-Doctoral Senior Studentship in Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies Clare College, University of Cambridge This article explores the possible inauthentic…
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Toni Morrison and the Burden of the Passing Narrative African American Review Volume 35, Number 2 (Summer, 2001) pages 205-217 Juda Bennett, Associate Professor of English The College of New Jersey Passing for white, a phenomenon that once captivated writers as diverse as Charles Chesnutt, Sinclair Lewis, Nella Larsen, and Mark Twain, no longer seems…
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Archibald J. Motley, Jr.’s Paintings: Modern Art Shaped by Precision, Candor, and Soul Hyperallergic: Sensitive to Art & its Discontents 2014-03-09 Edward M. Gómez A week ago, 12 Years A Slave won the Academy Award for Best Picture, the first time in the history of the Oscars that the top prize went to a film…