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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Deconstructing Race: Gobinism and Miscegenation in Pearl S. Buck The Criterion: An International Journal in English Volume III, Issue II (June 2012) 8 pages ISSN 0976-8165 Aysha Munira The 17th and 18th centuries saw the emergence of the idea of race, along with the rise of colonialism and transatlantic slave trade. By the end of…
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Mestizaje nacional: una historia “negra” por contar / National miscegenation: a “negro” history yet to be told Memoria y Sociedad Volume 14, Number 29 (2010) pages 91-105 Diana Catalina Zapata-Cortés Historiadora de la Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia This work analyzes the “negro” representation in the projects of folklore diffusion that spread in the…
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This study systematically analyzed novels of contemporary and historical fiction with mixed race content intended for readers age 9-14. In the context of an increasingly multiracial and multicultural society, this study was primarily concerned with the question of identity representation: What is contemporary children’s literature saying about the experience of being racially mixed? This question…
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Quilombismo and the Afro-Brazilian Quest for Citizenship Journal of Black Studies Volume 43, Number 8 (November 2012) pages 847-871 DOI: 10.1177/0021934712461794 Niyi Afolabi, Professor of African & African Diaspora Studies University of Texas, Austin Between the radicalism of Black Brazilian movements of the 1980s, an aftermath of the negation and rejection of the myth of…
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An interdisciplinary study on the myth of racial democracy in Brazil through the prism of producers of Afro-Brazilian culture.
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Figuring Abjection: The Slave Mother in the Early Creole Novel French Studies Volume 67, Issue 1, January 2013 pages 61-75 DOI: 10.1093/fs/kns232 Maeve McCusker School of Modern Languages Queen’s University Belfast While twentieth-century Caribbean literature in French has generated a substantial body of criticism, earlier writings have largely been neglected. This article begins by contextualizing…
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“Incestuous Sheets” and “Adulterate Beasts”: Incest and Miscegenation in Early Modern Drama University of Michigan 2011 199 pages Kentston D. Bauman A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (English Language and Literature) This dissertation explores the centrality of incest and miscegenation in the early modern cultural…