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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“Recoil” or “Seize”?: Passing, Ekphrasis and “Exact Expression” in Nella Larsen’s Passing Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing and Culture Volume 3, Number 2, Fall 2001 Monique Rooney, Lecturer and Honours Convenor College of Arts and Social Sciences Austrailian National University Part One: Deep Nothing Mona Lisa’s famous smile is a thin mouth receding into…
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Dawn of the Different: The Mulatto Zombie in Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead The Journal of Popular Culture Volume 45, Issue 3 (June 2012) pages 551–571 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2012.00944.x Justin Ponder WHILE ZOMBIE FILMS DO NOT BLATANTLY FOCUS ON miscegenation or mulattos, interracial themes abound in them. In George A. Romero’s Night of the Living…
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Constructing Dialogue, Constructing Identites: Mixed Heritage Identity Construction in “Half and Half” Georgetown University 2009-04-16 55 pages Anissa Jane Sorokin A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Language and Communication This…
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Ambivalent passages: racial and cultural crossings in Onoto Watanna’s The Heart of Hyacinth MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 34, Number 1 (Spring 2009) pages 211-229 DOI: 10.1353/mel.0.0004 Huining Ouyang, Professor of English Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin Appearing in the early fall of 1903 in time for the Christmas season, The Heart of Hyacinth,…
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The arresting eye: Race and the detection of deception University of Southern California December 2005 282 pages Publication Number: AAT 3220115 ISBN: 9780542713217 Jinny Huh A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ENGLISH) With increasing rates…
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Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America New York University Press November 2012 272 pages 10 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9780814765463 Paper ISBN: 9780814765470 Antonio López, Assistant Professor of English George Washington University In Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio López uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a…
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Crimes of passing: The criminalization of blackness and miscegenation in United States passing narratives University of California, Los Angeles 2005 158 pages Publication Number: AAT 3175169 ISBN: 9780542133046 Susan Elaine Bausch A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature Between approximately 1880 and 1925, large…