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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Ambiguity in Jean Toomer’s Cane Berkely Undergraduate Journal Volume 24, Issue 3 (2011) pages 79-92 Amanda Licato Department of English ’13 University of California, Berekely When Jean Toomer’s modernist experimental novel Cane was published in 1923, both he and the text were taken to be representative voices of African American life, even though Toomer explicitly…
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Yellow Rose of Texas The Handbook of Texas Online Texas State Historical Association 2012-01-21 Jeffrey D. Dunn James Lutzweiler “The Yellow Rose of Texas,” one of the iconic songs of modern Texas and a popular traditional American tune, has experienced several transformations of its lyrics and periodic revivals in popularity since its appearance in the…
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Rethinking Race History: The Role of the Albino in the Frence Enlightenment Life Sciences History and Theory Volume 48, Issue 3 (October 2009) pages 151–179 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2303.2009.00502.x Andrew Curran, Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures Wesleyan University The scholarly quest to recover the construction of racial difference in the Enlightenment-era life sciences generally overlooks a…
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A Critique of Pure Pluralism Chapter in: Reconstructing American Literary History Harvard University Press 1986 386 pages ISBN-10: 1583484167; ISBN-13: 978-1583484166 Edited by: Sacvan Bercovitch, Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of American Literature Harvard University pages 250-279 Chapter Author: Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Afro American Studies;…
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Edward W. Blyden, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the ‘Color Complex’ The Journal of Modern African Studies Volume 30, Number 4 (December, 1992) pages 669-684 DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X00011101 Michael J. C. Echeruo, William Safire Professor in Modern Letters English Department Syracuse University This article is an attempt to present (and thereby to come to terms…
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Mark Twain and Homer Plessy Representations Number 24, Special Issue: America Reconstructed, 1840-1940 (Autumn, 1988) pages 102-128 Eric J. Sundquist, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities Johns Hopkins University The carnivalesque drama of doubling, twinship, and masquerade that constitutes Pudd’nhead Wilson and its freakishly extracted yet intimately conjoined story, “Those Extraordinary Twins,” is likely…
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Jean Toomer: Fugitive American Literature Volume 47, Number 1 (March, 1975) page 84-96 Charles Scruggs, Professor of English University of Arizona As a young boy, Jean Toomer attended a dinner party during which someone asked his famous grandfather, P. B. S. Pinchback, if he indeed had “colored” blood. The light-skinned former lieutenant governor of Louisiana…
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Jean Toomer and American Racial Discourse Texas Studies in Literature and Language Volume 35, Number 2, Anxieties of Identity in American Writing (Summer 1993) pages 226-250 George Hutchinson, Booth Tarkington Professor of Literary Studies; Adjunct Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies; Adjunct Professor of American Studies Indiana University, Bloomington The culture which will…
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The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White Harvard University Press January 1996 560 pages 6-3/8 x 9-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780674372627 George Hutchinson, Booth Tarkington Professor of Literary Studies; Adjunct Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies; Adjunct Professor of American Studies Indiana University, Bloomington It wasn’t all black or white. It wasn’t a…