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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Family Money explores the histories of formerly enslaved women who tried to claim inheritances left to them by deceased owners, the household traumas of mixed-race slaves, post-Emancipation calls for reparations, and the economic fallout from anti-miscegenation marriage laws.
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Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia University of Hawai‘i Press March 2013 192 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8248-3664-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8248-3736-5 L. Ayu Saraswati, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies University of Hawai‘i In Indonesia, light skin color has been desirable throughout recorded history. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race explores Indonesia’s changing beauty ideals and traces them…
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Aisha Sabatini Sloan Trop 2013-05-14 Zoe Ruiz, Saturday Editor for The Rumpus and staff member of FOUND In The Fluency of Light, Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s essays read like meditations on themes of identity, race, and family. Her writing is sharp—one might say spare—and her descriptions, clear and beautiful. Her essays are a guide that help…
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Afrofuturism’s Others Tate Modern Starr Auditorium Bankside London SE1 9TG Saturday, 2013-06-15, 14:00-16:00 BST (Local Time) Ellen Gallagher, Deluxe 2004–5 (detail) Mixed media, 60 frames, 38.9 x 32 cm each Tate Photography © Tate Ellen Gallagher’s work deconstructs received truths and weaves together propositional narratives, inhabiting spaces where the future collapses into the past, obsolescence…
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Casta Painting: Art, Race and Identity in Colonial Mexico (HI972) University of Warwick Coventry, England Spring 2013 Rebecca Earle, Professor of History This module explores the distinctive vision of colonial Mexico purveyed via the artistic genre known as the casta painting. Casta paintings depict the outcomes of different types of inter-ethnic mixing, and often come…
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The Art of Conversation: Eighteenth-Century Mexican Casta Painting SHIFT: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture Issue 5, 2012 25 pages Mey-Yen Moriuchi Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Traditionally, casta paintings have been interpreted as an isolated colonial Mexican art form and examined within the social historical moment in which they emerged. Casta paintings…
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The Limits of Literary Realism: Of One Blood’s Post-Racial Fantasy by Pauline Hopkins Callaloo Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2013 pages 158-177 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2013.0049 Melissa Asher Daniels, Assistant Professor of English University of Alabama, Birmingham Fiction is of great value to any people as a preserver of manners and customs—religious, political and social. It is…
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A Conversation with Lawrence Hill Callaloo Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2013 pages 5-26 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2013.0072 Winfried Siemerling, Professor of English University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada When Paul Gilroy in The Black Atlantic offered an alternative account of modernity that placed transnational, black transatlantic lives and cultures at the center, Canada was not on his…
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The Place in Between: An Interview with Esi Edugyan Callaloo Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2013 pages 46-51 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2013.0070 Maaza Mengiste Esi Edugyan’s 2011 Man Booker Prize finalist, Half-Blood Blues, opens with the lines, “Chip told us not to go out. Said, don’t you boys tempt the devil.” It is 1940 in Nazi-occupied Paris…
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Ellen Gallagher at Tate Modern The Telegraph 2013-05-02 Alastair Smart, Arts Editor of the Sunday Telegraph In this solid retrospective, America’s Ellen Gallagher subtly mixes pretty abstraction with reference to her black heritage, says Alastair Smart. I sometimes feel sorry for artists today. Not in the sense that I’d make a £2 monthly donation for…