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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“A Little Yellow Bastard Boy”: Paternal Rejection, Filial Insistence, and the Triumph of African American Cultural Aesthetics in Langston Hughes’s “Mulatto” Robert Paul Lamb, Professor of English Purdue University College Literature Volume, 35, Number 2 (Spring 2008) pages 126-153 DOI: 10.1353/lit.2008.0012 When Langston Hughes published “Mulatto” in his second poetry collection, Fine Clothes to the…
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Miscegenation, assimilation, and consumption: racial passing in George Schuyler’s “Black No More” and Eric Liu’s “The Accidental Asian” MELUS Volume 33, Number 3 (Fall 2008) Multicultural and Multilingual Aesthetics of Resistance pages 169-190 Hee-Jung Serenity Joo, Associate Professor of English University of Manitoba “[E]ither get out, get white or get along.” —Schuyler, Black No More…
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“The Ineffaceable Curse of Cain”: Racial Marking and Embodiment in Pinky Camera Obscura – 43 Volume 15, Number 1 (May 2000) pages 95-121 DOI: 10.1215/02705346-15-1_43-95 Elspeth Kydd, Senior Lecturer of Film Studies and Video Production University of the West of England, Bristol Look at my fingers, are not the nails of a bluish tinge ……
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Passing For Horror: Race, Fear, and Elia Kazan’s “Pinky” Genders: Presenting Innovative Work in the Arts, Humanities and Social Theories Issue 40 (2004) Miriam J. Petty, Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts Rutgers University, Newark Film genres routinely mix and evolve over time in ways that change our expectations of them, and change the…
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Picturizing Race: Hollywood’s Censorship of Miscegenation and Production of Racial Visibility through “Imitation of Life” Genders: Presenting Innovative Work in the Arts, Humanities and Social Theories Issue 27 (1998) Susan Courtney, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies University of South Carolina “A Case Very Near the Borderline” Hollywood’s Production Code explicitly banned “miscegenation” from…
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Race-mixing and science in the United States Endeavour Volume 27, Number 4 (December 2003) pages 166-170 DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2003.08.007 Paul Farber, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History Oregon State University Scientific racism was widely used as a justification to oppose race-mixing in the United States. Historians have justly criticized this abuse of science, but have overlooked some…
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Chameleon Changes: An Exploration of Racial Identity Themes of Multiracial People Journal of Counseling Psychology Volume 52, Number 4 (October 2005) pages 507-516 DOI: 10.1037/0022-0167.52.4.507 Marie L. Miville Teachers College, Columbia University Madonna G. Constantine Teachers College, Columbia University Matthew F. Baysden Oklahoma State University Gloria So-Lloyd Oklahoma State University The current study explored essential…