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 Martinican concept of “creoleness”: A multiracial redefinition of culture. Mots Pluriels Number 7, (July 1998): Third Space and Cross-Cultural Identities—Mestissage – Tiers Espace – Identite Beverley Ormerod, Associate Professor of French University of Western Australia In the 1930s, black and coloured intellectuals from the French Caribbean colonies of Martinique, Guadeloupe and Guyane sought for…
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Diana Mafe Publishes Book What’s Happening Denison University, Department of English 2013-11-18 Diana Mafe, assistant professor of English, publishes her first book. Diana Mafe, Assistant Professor of English, has published her first book, Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature: Coloring Outside the (Black and White) Lines (Palgrave Macmillan 2013). In this work,…
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English prof. Diana Mafe pens literary analysis of biracial blacks The Denisonian: Denison University’s student publication since 1857 Granville, Ohio 2013-11-19 Curtis Edmonds, Forum Editor The United States is undoubtedly one of the most–if not the most–racially diverse country in the world, and seven percent of American children born in the last decade were bi-…
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Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature: Coloring Outside the (Black and White) Lines Palgrave Macmillan November 2013 208 pages 3 illustrations 5.500 x 8.500 inches Hardback ISBN: 978-1-137-36492-0, ISBN10: 1-137-36492-0 Diana Adesola Mafe, Assistant Professor of English Denison University, Granville, Ohio America’s new millennial interest in multiraciality coincides with South Africa’s post-apartheid…
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Caballeros and Indians: Mexican American Whiteness, Hegemonic Mestizaje, and Ambivalent Indigeneity in Proto-Chicana/o Autobiographical Discourse, 1858–2008 MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Volume 38, Issue 1 (March 2013) pages 30-49 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mls010 B. V. Olguín, Associate Professor of English University of Texas, San Antonio In the spirit of a new people that is conscious…
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Passing: When People Can’t Be Who They Are PublicAffiars an imprint of Perseus Books Group 2004-11-30 288 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-58648-287-9 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Brooke Kroeger, Professor of Journalism New York University Through the provocative stories of six contemporary “passers,” and examples from history and literature, a renowned journalist illuminates passing as a…
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Subjecting Pleasure: Claude McKay’s Narratives of Transracial Desire Journal of Black Studies Volume 44, Number 7 (October 2013) pages 706-724 DOI: 10.1177/0021934713507579 Smita Das, 2012-2013 Dissertation Fellow University of Illinois, Chicago This article explores the threat posed by the Afro-Asian body in Claude McKay’s novels, Banjo (1929) and Banana Bottom (1933). Banjo’s narrative of transracial…
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“A Future Unwritten”: Blackness between the Religious Invocations of Heidi Durrow and Zadie Smith South Atlantic Quarterly Volume 112, Number 4 (2013) pages 657-674 DOI: 10.1215/00382876-2345225 Brian Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University Race and religion were two aspects of the Western colonial project. Novelists Heidi Durrow and Zadie Smith reflect two related…