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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In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation and its aftermath, Carlyle Van Thompson illumines the racialized sexual desire that reduces Black people to commodities for consumption. “Eating the Black Body” examines the often-sadistic forms of sexual violence during the period of slavery and its aftermath.
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“Makin a way Outta no way:” The dangerous business of racial masquerade in Nella Larsen’s Passing Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory Volume 15, Issue 1 (2005) pages 79-104 DOI: 10.1080/07407700508571489 Carlyle Van Thompson, Acting Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Education Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York Early in…
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Throughout the twentieth century, the post-revolutionary Mexican State had used mestizaje as a symbol of national unity and social integration. By the end of the millennium, however, Mexico had gone from a PRI-dominated, economically protectionist nation to a more democratic, economically globalizing one.
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Liminality in the works: The novels of Charles Chesnutt University of Massachusetts, Amherst September 1996 154 pages Publication Number: AAT 9709591 ISBN: 9780591169812 Susan Jane Doyle Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Charles Chesnutt is perhaps best…
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“Japanese in the Samba”: Japanese Brazilian Musical Citizenship, Racial Consciousness, and Transnational Migration University of Pittsburgh 2008 213 pages Shanna Lorenz, Assistant Professor of Music Occidental College, Los Angeles, California Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Arts and Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy his doctoral dissertation…
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Interracial Family Memoirs: Reconstructing Genealogies across the Color Line Yale University 230 Prospect Street Room 101 New Haven, Connecticut 06511 2013-09-16, 12:00-13:15 EDT (Local Time) Cedric Essi, Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies University of Erlangen-Nürnberg During the last two decades numerous autobiographical works have emerged which explore family histories in black and white, such as…
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Finding the Silver Lining: Hair, (Mixed) Race, and Identity Politics in Toni and Slade Morrison’s Little Cloud and Lady Wind The Lion and the Unicorn Volume 37, Number 2, April 2013 pages 173-187 DOI: 10.1353/uni.2013.0016 Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins, Associate Professor of English Florida Atlantic University rainclouds we are nature nature nature natural!!! black people, we…
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Lecturer points to racism in Harry Potter The Daily Campus The Independent News Source for the University of Connecticut 2013-02-22 Christopher Kelly, Campus Correspondent Nature of science fiction discusses race in unseen ways Eric Hamako from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst came to speak to UConn students and faculty Wednesday about the increasing popularity of racist…
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Race and Narrative in Italian Women’s Writing Since Unification Fairleigh Dickinson University Press July 2013 127 pages ISBN: 9781611475999 Melissa Coburn, Assistant Professor of Italian and Italian Program Director Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Race and Narrative in Italian Women’s Writing Since Unification explores racist ideas and critiques of racism in four long narratives…