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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Passing, Performance, and Perversity: Rewriting Bodies in the Works of Lawrence Hill, Shani Mootoo, and Danzy Senna 49th Parallel: An interdisciplinary journal of North American studies Issue 26: Autumn 2011 ISSN: 1753-5794 19 pages Natalie Wall University of Calgary This paper examines the function of passing in the works of Lawrence Hill, Shani Mootoo, and…
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The Language Trap: U.S. Passing Fiction and its Paradox University of Kansas 2009 181 pages Masami Sugimori, Instructor of English University of South Alabama Submitted to the graduate degree program in English and the Graduate Faculty of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Through…
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Narrative Order, Racial Hierarchy, and “White” Discourse in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Along This Way MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 36, Number 3, Fall 2011 page 37-62 DOI: 10.1353/mel.2011.0041 Masami Sugimori, Instructor of English University of South Alabama African Americans became increasingly mobile during the early twentieth…
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Science of desire: Race and representations of the Haitian revolution in the Atlantic world, 1790-1865 University of Notre Dame July 2008 489 pages Publication Number: AAT 3436234 ISBN: 9781124353197 Marlene Leydy Daut, Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of…
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“Our Ancestors came from many Bloods”. Gendered Narrations of a Hybrid Nation Lusotopie Volume 12, Issue 1 (2005) pages 217-232 DOI: 10.1163/176830805774719728 Isabel P.B. Fêo Rodrigues, Professor of Anthropology University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Narratives of mixed ancestry in Cape Verde use gender as common denominator in the weaving of a Creole nation. These narratives may…
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A Tangled Text: William Wells Brown’s Clotel (1853, 1860, 1864, 1867) Wesleyan University April 2009 104 pages Samantha Marie Sommers A thesis submitted to the faculty of Wesleyan University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts with Departmental Honors in English and the American Studies Program Table of Contents…
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Eurasian Women as Tawa’if Singers and Recording Artists: Entertainment and Identity-making in Colonial India African and Asian Studies Volume 8, Issue 3 (2009) pages 268-287 DOI: 10.1163/156921009X458118 Shweta Sachdeva Jha, Assistant Professor of English Miranda House, University College for Women, University of Delhi Scholarship on Eurasians has often addressed issues of migration, collective identity and…
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Traveling with Her Mother’s Tastes: The Negotiation of Gender, Race, and Location in “Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands” Signs Volume 26, Number 4, Globalization and Gender (Summer, 2001) pages 949-981 Sandra Gunning, Professor of English, Afroamerican and African Studies and Women’s Studies University of Michigan The autobiography Wonderful Adventuers of Mrs. Seacole…
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Creole Performance in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Gender & History Volume 15, Issue 3, November 2003 pages 487–506 DOI: 10.1111/j.0953-5233.2003.00317.x Rhonda Frederick, Associate Professor of African & African Diaspora Studies Program Boston College Mary Seacole’s autobiography has been read as a feminist performance as well as a paradigmatic Victorian travel narrative.…