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 Racial Pecking Order in British Theatre and TV Media Diversified: Tackling the lack of diversity in UK media and the ubiquity of whiteness 2014-02-28 Daniel York I’ve been reading a book recently by the American sociologist David T. Wellman with the frankly terrifying title Portraits Of White Racism. I say terrifying because it conjures…
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International Blackness vs. Homegrown Negroes: Lupita, Chimamanda, Thandie and me Alternet 2014-02-23 Esther Armah “She is very white!” Revered Swedish film critic Jannike Åhlund watches a clip of actress Thandie Newton playing Olanna, one of the Nigerian twin sisters in the film adaptation of the award-winning novel Half of a Yellow Sun by Nigerian author…
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Identity Politics of the Captivity Narrative after 1848 University of Nebraska Press 2006 160 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-4400-9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-2067-6 Andrea Tinnemeyer, English Teacher The College Prepartory School, Oakland, California Andrea Tinnemeyer’s book examines the nineteenth-century captivity narrative as a dynamic, complex genre that provided an ample medium for cultural critique, a revision of…
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The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930 [Joseph Review] MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Published online: 2014-01-26 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlt079 Ralina L. Joseph, Associate Professor of Communication University of Washington The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930. Jolie A. Sheffer. New Brunswick…
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Undoing Racial Identification and Redoing Ethical Cultivation: Passing as a Performance of Identity and an Ethics of Self-Making Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York Honors Thesis Fall 2013 42 pages Paige Meserve Submitted to the Department of Religion Paige Meserve uses contemporary affect theory and queer theory to explore how racial identities are performed (and taken…
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Detecting Winnifred Eaton MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Published online: 2014-01-16 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlt078 Jinny Huh, Assistant Professor of English University of Vermont In her recent introduction to Winnifred Eaton’s Marion: The Story of an Artist’s Model (1916), Karen E. H. Skinazi explores the relationship between racial ambiguity—that of both the anonymous author and…
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English 4640G: Construction of Racial Identity in Post Civil War America Huron University College at Western University London, Ontario, Canada Winter 2013 Neil Brooks, Associate Professor, English Course Description: Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination argues that the canonical American literary tradition can only be understood after recognizing the presence…
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Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist by G. Reginald Daniel (review) Hispanic Review Volume 82, Number 1, Winter 2014 pages 116-119 DOI: 10.1353/hir.2014.0008 Mércia Santana Flannery, Lecturer of Portuguese Romance Languages Department University of Pennsylvania G. Reginald Daniel, Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist, 336 pages, hardcover ISBN: 978-0-271-05246-5.…