Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- Mixed Roots: Writers on Multiracial Identity and Both/And Belonging
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Category: Literary/Artistic Criticism
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Anatole Broyard wanted to be a writer, not a black writer. So he chose to live a lie rather than be trapped by the truth.
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In this essay, I examine the complexities of racial passing in nineteenth and twentieth century literatures with attention to Long Lance’s unique perspective of his racial identity and shows how he used literary and legal racial passing to challenge racial binarism.
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Join T’s book club, which focuses on classic works of American literature, for a conversation on Nella Larsen’s “Passing” led by the novelist Brit Bennett.
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Though Nella Larsen’s classic 1929 novel is understood to be a tragedy, it also exposes race to be something of a farce.
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It is a story about imitating, pretending to be something that isn’t true. However, what is true is what the characters literally see—gender and race—something no one can walk away from.
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Understanding the Legacy of Nella Larsen’s Passing The Mary Sue 2021-02-04 Princess Weekes, Assistant Editor Right now on the Sundance circuit is the Rebecca Hall-directed film Passing, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga. It is an adaptation of the Harlem Renaissance classic Passing by Nella Larsen. Embedded into the text is a rich powerful narrative…
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No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner University Press of Mississippi November 2020 208 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781496830708 Paperback ISBN: 9781496830692 Andre E. Johnson, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee A critical study of the career of the nineteenth-century bishop No Future in…
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A foundational collection of essays that demonstrate how to study race and media
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In “Relative Races,” Brigitte Fielder presents an alternative theory of how race is ascribed.
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We concluded the semester with Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece’s “Incognegro,” a graphic novel that breaks down constructs of race and highlights the ways that society, especially those who want to maintain power, constructs one’s identity.