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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Framing a Deterritorialized, Hybrid Alternative to Nationalist Essentialism in the Postcolonial Era: Tjalie Robinson and the Diasporic Eurasian “Indo” Community Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies Volume 16, Numbers 1/2, (Spring/Fall 2007) pages 1-28 DOI: 10.1353/dsp.2007.0002 Jeroen Dewulf, Queen Beatrix Professor in Dutch Studies University of California, Berkeley In her study of Transnational South Asians…
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The Relationship Between Colour and Identity in the Literature of Nella Larsen and Richard Wright Lethbridge Undergraduate Research Journal Volume 3, Number 2 (June 2008) ISSN 1718-8482 Elisabeth Hudson King’s College London The fiction of Nella Larsen and Richard Wright explores the struggle of African-American men and women to forge an identity for themselves that…
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Clare Kendry’s “True” Colors: Race and Class Conflict in Nella Larsen’s Passing Callaloo Volume 15, Number 4 (Autumn, 1992) pages 1053-1065 Jennifer DeVere Brody, Professor of Drama Stanford University Interpretations of Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929) often have failed to explain the complex symbolism of the narrative. Indeed, dismissive or tendentious criticisms of the text have…
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Bessora: A Writer with a Thirty-Eight Shoe Size Wasafiri Volume 24, Issue 2 (2009) pages 60-65 DOI: 10.1080/02690050902771779 Adele King The character of literary criticism combined with pedagogical strategies tends to categorise, moving one accepted orthodoxy forward by pushing another out of the way. Early approaches to European literature were to treat it as a…
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In the Shadow of Her Ancestry: The New Tragic Mulatta North Carolina State University, Raleigh 2004 60 pages Vonda Marie Easterling 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 This thesis examines the plight of the infamous tragic…
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Race and Ethnicity in “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” and “The Rise of David Levinsky”: The Performative Difference MELUS Volume 29, Numbers 3/4, (Autumn-Winter, 2004), Pedagody, Canon, Context: Toward a Redefinition of Ethnic American Literary Studies pages 307-321 Catherine Rottenberg, Assistant Professor Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics and the Gender Studies Program Ben-Gurion…
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“Still Seeking for Something”: The Unspeakable (Loss) in “Passing” by Nella Larsen Wagadu Volume 6, 2008, Special Issue: Women’s Activism for Gender Equality in Africa 16 pages Agnieszka Mrozik The paper analyzes Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929) through the lens of the theory of melancholy from Freud to Butler. Examining the dynamic relationship between Irene Redfield…
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Passing: Race, Identification and Desire Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts Volume 45, Number 4 (Fall 2003) pages 435-52 Catherine Rottenberg, Assistant Professor Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics and the Gender Studies Program Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel IN THE SECOND HALF of the nineteenth century, African-American writers such as William Wells Brown…
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A Dissertation submitted to the Department of American Literature and Culture, School of English, Faculty of Philosophy of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.
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Ethnographic Pictorialism: Caroline Gurrey’s Hawaiian Types at the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition History of Photography Volume 36, Issue 2 (May 2012) pages 172-183 DOI: 10.1080/03087298.2012.654943 Heather Waldroup, Associate Professor of Art History Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina In 1909, a series of photographs by Honolulu portraitist Caroline Gurrey was exhibited at the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition (AYPE) in…