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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Triangular Mirrors and Moving Colonialisms Etnográfica Volume 6, Number 1 (2002) pages 127-140 Anani Dzidzienyo, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Portuguese & Brazilian Studies Brown University Though there does not exist an undifferentiated colonialism category because of specificities relating to historical time conjunctions, the interfacing of such conjunctions with metropolitan projects, and the modalities…
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Passing for what? Aspects of Identity in Nella Larsen’s Novels Black American Literature Forum Volume 20, Number 1/2 (Spring-Summer, 1986) pages 97-111 Cheryl A. Wall, Board of Governors Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English Rutgers University True, she was attractive, unusual, in an exotic, almost savage way, but she wasn’t one of them. —Quicksand (124)…
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Black No More: Skin Bleaching and the Emergence of New Negro Womanhood Beauty Culture The Journal of Pan African Studies Voume 4, Number 4 (June 2011) pages 97-116 Treva B. Lindsey, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies University of Missouri, Columbia This article examines the usage of skin bleaching products and processes among some…
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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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Georgia Historical Society Announces Georgia History Book of the Year [Writing The South Through The Self] Georgia Historical Society 2012-05-07 Brandy Mai, Director of Communications SAVANNAH, Ga., May 7, 2012 – The Georgia Historical Society has named Writing The South Through The Self by John C. Inscoe as the recipient of its 2012 Malcolm Bell…
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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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Indians and Diversity Indian Country Today Media Network 2012-05-03 Steve Russell, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Indiana University This term, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case about affirmative action in university admissions, where my alma mater is on the side of diversity for a change. Most observers agree diversity is likely to…