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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Kant’s Race Theory, Forster’s Counter, and the Metaphysics of Color The Eighteenth Century Volume 53, Number 4, Winter 2012 pages 393-412 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2012.0032 Sally Hatch Gray, Assistant Professor of German Mississippi State University This article argues for an understanding of Kant’s race theory as an integral part of his idea of nature and of humans…
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In Black and White New York Magazine 2005-05-21 Mark Stevens “Ellen Gallagher: DeLuxe” confronts issues of race not with hectoring but with clever, even antic, satire. In Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison explored not only overt expressions of racism but also its more hidden, corrosive elements. African-Americans suffered from metaphysical wounds. They were “invisible,” seen not…
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Eurasian Hybridity in Chinese Utopian Visions: From “One World” to “A Society Based on Beauty” and Beyond positions: east asia cultures critique Volume 14, Number 1, Spring 2006 pages 131-163 Emma Jinhua Teng, T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations; Associate Professor of Chinese Studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Can Mixed-Blood Hybrids Really…
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Consolidated Colors: Racial Passing and Figurations of the Chinese in Walter White’s Flight and Darryl Zanuck’s Old San Francisco MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 37, Number 4, Winter 2012 pages 93-117 DOI: 10.1353/mel.2012.0064 Amanda M. Page, Visiting Assistant Professor of English Marywood University, Scranton, Pennsylvania Narratives of racial passing frequently investigate how the…
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Finding Edith Eaton Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers Volume 29, Number 2, 2012 pages 263-269 DOI: 10.1353/leg.2012.0017 Mary Chapman, Associate Professor of English University of British Columbia Since her critical recovery in the early 1980s, Edith Maude Eaton has been celebrated as the first Asian North American writer and as an early, authentic…
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Essence and the Mulatto Traveler: Europe as Embodiment in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand The Journal of Transnational American Studies Volume 4, Number 1 (2012) 15 pages Jeffrey H. Gray, Professor of English Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey Originally published as Jeffrey Gray, “Essence and the Mulatto Traveler: Europe as Embodiment in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand,”…
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Critical Theories: Hybridity and African Diaspora Rutgers University, Newark Spring 2013 Belinda Edmondson, Professor and Director, Women’s & Gender Studies This course will investigate the concept of the hybrid society, or “hybridity”, in African-American and Caribbean literature. Hybridity here refers to both culturally and ethnically hybrid communities and peoples. Specifically, we will concentrate on the…
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AFR 108: What Passes for Freedom?: Mixed-Race Figures in U.S. Culture Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts Spring 2013 Cross Listed as AMST107, ENGL108 Vincent J. Schleitwiler, Assistant Professor of English The idea of a distinct category of individuals identified as “biracial,” “multiracial,” or “mixed-race” has become increasingly prominent over the past few decades, despite the inescapable…