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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Scouting the City for Her Characters The New York Times 2011-08-19 John Leland A Summer afternoon in Chelsea, and Sarah Jones was on a recon mission, searching for… she did not know what, exactly. An accent, for starters. An ethnic wild card. “Hybridity,” she said, using a word she uses often to describe her field…
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The Place of Miscegenation Laws within Historical Scholarship about Slavery The Literary Lawyer: A Forum for the Legal and Literary Communities 2011-05-17 Allen Porter Mendenhall The following post appeared at The Literary Table. Miscegenation laws, also known as anti-miscegenation laws, increasingly have attracted the attention of scholars of slavery over the last half-century. Scholarship on…
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‘The suffering black male body and the threatened white female body’: ambiguous bodies in Candyman The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies Issue 9, February 2011 Lucy Fife Donaldson University of Reading Race is not a subject often directly encountered in the horror film, despite the highly charged conflict of black and white constituting…
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt and the Solution to the Race Problem Negro American Literature Forum Volume 3, Number 2 (Summer, 1969) pagess 52-56 June Socken Charles Waddell Chesnutt, the first American Negro short story writer and novelist of recognized professional quality, squarely faced the problem of Negro-White relations in America. Although his short story “The Wife…
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Rena’s Two Bodies: Gender and Whiteness in Charles Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars Studies in the Novel Volume 43, Numbers 1 (Spring 2011) pages 38-54 E-ISSN: 1934-1512 Print ISSN: 0039-3827 Melissa Ryan, Associate Professor of English Alfred University, Alfred, New York In a letter thirty years after The House Behind the Cedars was published,…