Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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In Praise of Michelle Cliff’s Creolite North Carolina State University 2002-11-13 62 pages Quincey Michelle Hyatt A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of North Carolina State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts—English Focusing on feminism, language, and history, this thesis explores the ways in which the…
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“You are an Anglo-Indian?” Eurasians and Hybridity and Cosmopolitanism in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children The Journal of Commonwealth Literature Volume 38, Number 2 (April 2003) pages 125-145 DOI: 10.1177/00219894030382008 Loretta Mijares The term “Anglo-Indian”, emerging as early as 1806, originally referred to the British in India. In India today, however, the term is universally understood…
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The Shadow of the Octoroon in T. E. Brown’s Christmas Rose Victorian Poetry Volume 38, Number 2, Summer 2000 pages 289-298 DOI: 10.1353/vp.2000.0023 Max Keith Sutton In Impossible Purities, Jennifer Brody writes that the multiracial “woman of color” in Victorian literature “both conceals and reveals conflicting ideas of difference.” The light skin of an octoroon,…
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How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself The New York Times 2012-06-28 John Jeremiah Sullivan A poll of well over a hundred writers and critics, taken a few years back by Oxford American magazine, named William Faulkner’s “Absalom, Absalom!” the “greatest Southern novel ever written,” by a decisive margin —…
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ENGL 326: Representations of Miscegenations Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut Spring 2010 The course examines the notion of miscegenation (interracial relations), including how the term was coined and defined. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we will consider the different and conflicting ways that interracial relations have been represented, historically and contemporaneously, as well as the implications of…
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Slippery Language and False Dilemmas: The Passing Novels of Child, Howells, and Harper American Literature Volume 75, Number 4, December 2003 pages 813-841 Julie Cary Nerad, Associate Professor of English Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Conceived in slavery, gestated in racialist science, and bred in Jim Crow segregation, the U.S. race system calcified into a…
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Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction University of Minnesota Press July 2012 336 pages 9 b&w photos 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-7099-4 cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-7098-7 Diana Rebekkah Paulin, Associate Professor of English and American Studies Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut Imperfect Unions examines the vital role that nineteenth- and twentieth-century…
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English 190: Research Seminar: Literature of Racial Passing University of California, Berkeley Spring 2012 Cecil S. Giscombe, Professor of English A passing narrative is an account—fiction or nonfiction—of a person (or group) claiming a racial or ethnic identity that she does not (or they do not) “possess.” Such narratives speak—directly, indirectly, and very uneasily—to the…
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Terrance Hayes and Natasha Trethewey: Contemporary Black Chroniclers of the Imagined South The Southern Literary Journal Volume 44, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages 122-135 DOI: 10.1353/slj.2012.0009 William M. Ramsey, Professor of English Francis Marion University, Florence, South Carolina “I Don’t Hate the South.” — book title by Houston Baker, Jr. “The past is never dead.…