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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Digital Elves as a Racial Other in Video Games: Acknowledgment and Avoidance Games and Culture Volume 7, Number 5 (September 2012) pages 375-396 DOI: 10.1177/1555412012454224 Nathaniel Poor Brooklyn, New York, USA Elves are a long-standing cultural trope in the West, where they have often represented the other and fears associated with otherness. Elves continue to…
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“Imoinda’s Shade” examines the ways in which British writers utilize the most popular African female figure in eighteenth-century fiction and drama to foreground the African woman’s concerns and interests as well as those of a British nation grappling with the problems of slavery and abolition.
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Ambivalent examples: The multiple Creole subjects of Spanish American nineteenth-century narrative University of Pennsylvania 2006 371 pages Publication Number: AAT 3225427 ISBN: 9780542797194 Elisabeth L. Austin This dissertation proposes a paradigm for 19th-century Spanish American Creole subjectivity that considers it to be a multiple, unstable construct rather than a coherent or constant entity. From this…
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Reading The Human Stain through Charles W. Chesnutt: The Genre of the Passing Novel Philip Roth Studies Volume 2, Number 2 (Fall 2006) pages 138-150 DOI: 10.1353/prs.2011.0066 Matthew Wilson, Professor of English and Humanities Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg This article historicizes The Human Stain, placing it in the genre of the passing novel. The analysis…
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In Search of Something Akin to Freedom: Black Women, Slavery, and Power Florida State University 2007 78 pages Katrina Songanett Smith A Thesis submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts This thesis examines both historical and fictional representations of interracial relationships in…
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Rosario Dawson and the Ambiguous Blackness of Latinidad antenna 2012-08-05 Keara Goin As has become abundantly clear to me over the course of my research, in the context of contemporary popular U.S. racial discourse, one is either Latina/o or Black, not both. Moreover, we see this phenomenon replicated in U.S. cinema, where characters played by…
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Liberating Blackness: The Theme of Whitening in Two Colombian Short Stories Callaloo Volume 35, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages 475-493 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2012.0074 Laurence E. Prescott, Professor Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese Pennsylvania State University Hablaré del físico de los negros, casi como de carrera. Tienen dos cosas repugnantes para no gustar, el color negro…
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afro look: Die Geschichte einer Zeitschrift von schwarzen Deutschen University of Massachusetts, Amherst May 2000 245 pages Publication Number: AAT 9978512 ISBN: 9780599844605 Francine Jobatey Submitted to the Graduate School of the University Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures This…