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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English R1A: Keeping it Real?: Racial & Queer Passing in American Literature University of California, Berkeley Fall 2010 Rosa Martinez “I had a literature rather than a personality, a set of fictions about myself.” —Kafka Was the Rage by Anatole Broyard This course intends to explore the “art” of racial passing and masquerade in American…
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From The Birth of a Nation to Havoc: The Evolution of Traditional Blackface to Modern Racial Passing in U.S. Cinema Pennsylvania State University August 2009 122 pages Dorian Randall A Thesis in Media Studies by Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts Race is a complicated and debatable term…
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‘Beautiful Hybrids’: Caroline Gurrey’s Photographs of Hawai‘i’s Mixed-race Children History of Photography Volume 36, Issue 2 (May 2012) pages 184-198 DOI: 10.1080/03087298.2012.654947 Anne Maxwell, Associate Professor of English University of Melbourne, Australia In the early years of the twentieth century the Hawaiian-based American photographer Caroline Gurrey produced a much praised set of the photographs of…
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Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel University of Illinois Press 2001 208 pages 6 x 9 in. Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07248-2 M. Giulia Fabi, Associate professor of American literature University of Ferrara, Italy Revealing the role of light-skinned black characters passing for white in African American literature A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2003…
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Jean Toomer, Mulatto and Modernist: the Fused Race and Fused Form of Cane Oklahoma State University May 1997 76 pages Rhonda Lea McClellan Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate College of the Oklahoma State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS Preface In the fall of 1993,…
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To “Flash White Light from Ebony”: The Problem of Modernism in Jean Toomer’s Cane Twentieth Century Literature Volume 46, Number 1 (Spring 2000) pages 1-19 Catherine Gunther Kodat, Professor of English and American Studies Hamilton College, Clinton, New York The mirror stage is a drama whose internal thrust is precipitated from insufficiency to anticipation–and which…
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An extraordinary literary friendship, preserved in letters
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When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote: African-Native American Literature University of Illinois Press 2003 328 pages 6 x 9 in. Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-02819-9 Edited by: Jonathan Brennan, Professor of English Mission College, Santa Clara, California An exploration of the literature, history, and culture of people of mixed African-Native American descent An exploration of the literature, history,…
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“Cane”, Race, and “Neither/Norism” The Southern Literary Journal Volume 32, Number 2 (Spring, 2000) pages 90-101 Charles Harmon “My racial composition and my position in the world are realities which I alone may determine.” —Jean Toomer to Horace Liveright Of all people, Jean Toomer wrote Cane. For a long time, this fact has made critics…
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Honors 301: Mixed Race Art and Identity DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois Autumn Quarter 2011-2012 Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media, & Design Mixed Race Art & Identity will focus on contemporary art and popular culture to critically examine images of miscegenation and mixed race and post-ethnoracial identity constructs. Students will learn about the history and…