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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“Custodians of History”: (Re)Construction of Black Women as Historical and Literary Subjects in Afro-American and Afro-Cuban Women’s Writing University of Texas, Austin August 2005 500 pages Paula Sanmartín, Assistant Professor of (Afro) Caribbean and (Afro) Spanish American Literature California State University, Fresno Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of…
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The Tragic Mulatto Theme in Six Works of Langston Hughes Phylon (1940-1956) Volume 16, Number 2 (2nd Qtr., 1955) pages 195-204 Arthur P. Davis (1904-1996) The Weary Blues (1925), the first publication of Langston Hughes, contained a provocative twelve-line poem entitled “Cross,” which dealt with the tragic mulatto theme. Two years later when Mr. Hughes brought…
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Writing the South through the Self: Explorations in Southern Autobiography University of Georgia Press 2011-05-01 246 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-3767-8 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-3767-8 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-3968-9 John C. Inscoe, Albert B. Saye Professor and University Professor of History University of Georgia Using autobiography as an invaluable means for understanding southern history Drawing…
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Le Mélange of Francophone Culture in William Wells Brown’s Clotel The Undergraduate Review Volume 7, Issue 1 (2011) pages 8-11 Sandra Andrade Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts In Clotel; Or, The President’s Daughter, William Wells Brown argues that for fugitive African American slaves France represented freedom. This connection between African Americans and France that is…
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Going Viral: Stedman’s Narrative, Textual Variation, and Life in Atlantic Studies Romantic Circles Praxis Series Circulations: Romanticism and the Black Atlantic October 2011 47 paragraphs Dustin Kennedy English Department The Pennsylvania State University The current multiplex configuration of Stedman’s Narrative emerged in 1988, the result of Richard and Sally Price’s new scholarly edition. The Prices’…
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Cultural Reconstruction: Nation, Race, and the Invention of the American Magazine, 1830-1915 University of Maryland 2003-12-19 504 pages Reynolds J. Scott-Childress, Assistant Professor of History New Paltz, State University of New York Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree…
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This is the first book to place the self-fashioning of mixed-race individuals in the context of a Black Atlantic. Drawing on a wide range of sources and a diverse cast of characters – from the diaries, letters, novels and plays of femme fatales in Congo and the United States to the advertisements, dissertations, oral histories…
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Nicole Myoshi Rabin to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (Founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: Nicole Myoshi Rabin When: Wednesday, 2012-04-25, 21:00Z (17:00 EDT, 14:00 PDT) Nicole Myoshi Rabin, Instructor of…
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“Nearly White” and Clinging to “Bits of Finery”: Jim Crow Logic, Brazil, and Evelyn Scott’s Escapade
“Nearly White” and Clinging to “Bits of Finery”: Jim Crow Logic, Brazil, and Evelyn Scott’s Escapade Women’s Studies: An inter-disciplinary journal Volume 41, Issue 4, 2012 Special Issue: Women and Travel DOI: 10.1080/00497878.2012.663249 Amy Schmidt, Supervisor of Supplemental Instruction Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas Evelyn Scott’s Escapade (1923) illustrates both the similarities and the differences between…
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“This damned business of colour”: Passing in African American novels and memoirs Lehigh University 2005-04-28 230 pages Publication Number: AAT 3167071 ISBN: 9780542026218 Irina C. Negrea Presented to the Graduate and Research Committee of Lehigh University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English The topic of this dissertation is an analysis…