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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“And None for Clare Kendry”: The Mulatta Clique and Female Jealousy in Nella Larsen’s Passing AsianShakespearean ~ Poetic Justifications, Artistic Testimonies… 2012-04-25 Rebecca Hu Scholarship on Nella Larsen’s Passing has frequently been approached from the angles of race and queer theories. H. J. Landry and soon after, Brian Carr, have recently broken ground in their…
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Paranoid Interpretation, Desire’s Nonobject, and Nella Larsen’s “Passing” PMLA (Publication of the Modern Language Association) Volume 119, Number 2 (March, 2004) pages 282-295 Brian Carr Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929) has occasioned a great deal of paranoid interpretation, in large part because the novel is about nothing. I use nothing in the sense of no thing or a non-object,…
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Intertextual Links: Reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man College Literature Volume 40, Number 1, Spring 2013 pages 121-138 DOI: 10.1353/lit.2013.0004 Robin Miskolcze, Associate Professor of English Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California Though literary critics of James Weldon Johnson’s 1912 The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man convincingly…
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6 Hilariously Failed Attempts at Making Comics More Diverse: #3. Connor Hawke, the Mixed Race (and Possibly Gay) Green Arrow Cracked Magazine 2013-01-26 Ed Johnson Since the 1970s, the DC Comics superhero Green Arrow has had sex with pretty much every female he’s been able to impress with arrow-based innuendo. So it wasn’t much of…
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Methodologies of Socio-Cultural Classification: Contexutalizing the Casta Painting (1710-1800) as a Product of Time Undergraduate Journal of Gender and Women’s Studies Volume 1, Issue 1 (2012) 17 pages Pooja Chaudhuri University of California, Berkeley The “casta painting” appeared in the early 18th century Colonial Mexico (New Spain). The paintings illustrated different offspring produced from sexual…
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You Don’t Know Me: Picture Books to Make Biracial and Multiracial Children Comfortable with Dual Identities Multicultural Review Volume 18, Issue 4 (Winter 2009) pages 20-24 Kena Sosa Next year, in 2010, our country will be due for round two of the census containing an option for biracial or multiracial people. This feature debuted in…
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Stories of Multiracial Experiences in Literature for Children, Ages 9–14 Children’s Literature in Education December 2013, Volume 44, Issue 4 pages 359-376 DOI: 10.1007/s10583-013-9196-5 Amina Chaudhri, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago William H. Teale, Professor of Literacy, Language and Culture University of Illinois, Chicago This study analyzed 90 realistic novels written…
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White Negroes Guy Foster, Assistant Professor of English Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine Africana Studies/Gender and Women’s Studies Spring 2013 Close readings of literary and filmic texts that interrogate widespread beliefs in the fixity of racial categories and the broad assumptions these beliefs often engender. Investigates “whiteness” and “blackness” as unstable and fractured ideological constructs. These…
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Interracial Narratives Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine Africana Studies Fall 2012 Guy Foster, Assistant Professor of English Examines the stories that Americans have told about intimate relationships that cross the color line in twentieth- and twenty-first-century imaginative and theoretical texts. Considers how these stories have differed according to whether the participants are heterosexual or homosexual, men…