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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Reading Boddo’s Body: Crossing the Borders of Race and Sexuality in Whitman’s “Half-Breed” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review Volume 22, Number 2 (Fall 2004) pages 87-107 Thomas C. Gannon, Associate Professor of English University of Nebraska, Lincoln Offers an extended cultural reading of Whitman’s early story “The Half-Breed,” focusing on psychosexual and post-colonial implications of the…
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RTF 386 – Beyond Binaries: Mixed Race Representation and Critical Theory University of Texas, Austin Spring 2012 Mary Beltrán, Associate Professor of Media Studies This graduate seminar surveys historical and critical and cultural studies scholarship on the evolution of mixed race in U.S. film and media culture. American histories, cultures, and identities have traditionally been…
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In the Place of Clare Kendry: A Gothic Reading of Race and Sexuality in Nella Larsen’s Passing Callaloo Volume 34, Number 1, Winter 2011 pages 143-157 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2011.0024 Johanna M. Wagner Maastricht University Feeling her colour heighten under the continued inspection, she slid her eyes down. What, she wondered, could be the reason for such…
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“The Role of Implicatures in Kate Chopin’s Louisiana Short Stories” Journal of the Short Story in English Issue 40, Spring 2003 pages 69-84 Teresa Gibert, Professor of English Spanish National University of Distance Education (UNED) in Madrid It is tempting, in interpreting a literary text from an author one respects, to look further and further…
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Afro-Mexican History: Trends and Directions in Scholarship History Compass Volume 3, Issue 1 (January 2005) 14 pages DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2005.00156.x Ben Vinson, III, Vice Dean for Centers, Interdepartmental Programs, and Graduate Programs Johns Hopkins University This article surveys the development of a relatively new and vibrant subfield in Latin American History, mapping out the major stages…
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Symphony in Black and White: Krazy Kat Kontinued The Albany Times-Union Albany, New York 2008-11-20 Alexander Stern Don’t Touch My Comics: The Times Union Comics Panel takes a critical look at the funny pages. Some months ago, I wrote an appreciation of George Herriman’s classic strip, Krazy Kat; a strip frequently lauded as one of…
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Krazy Kat and Racial Identity Graphic Novels: ENGL 375TT (Spring 2009) University of Mary Wahsington 2009-02-01 Zach Whalen, Assistant Professor of English University of Mary Washington After doing some research on George Herriman, the writer and artist for Krazy Kat, I discovered that there has been a lot of critical analysis applied to this comic…
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After Traveling to Virginia during the Civil War as a field illustrator for the New York journal Harper’s Weekly, Winslow Homer returned to this area toward the end of the Reconstruction period to paint primarily around Richmond and Petersburg. Having abandoned his career as illustrator to devote himself exclusively to painting, Homer sketched outdoors near…