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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International Blackness vs. Homegrown Negroes: Lupita, Chimamanda, Thandie and me Alternet 2014-02-23 Esther Armah “She is very white!” Revered Swedish film critic Jannike Åhlund watches a clip of actress Thandie Newton playing Olanna, one of the Nigerian twin sisters in the film adaptation of the award-winning novel Half of a Yellow Sun by Nigerian author…
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Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics
In the antebellum South, plantation physicians used a new medical device—the spirometer—to show that lung volume and therefore vital capacity were supposedly less in black slaves than in white citizens. At the end of the Civil War, a large study of racial difference employing the spirometer appeared to confirm the finding, which was then applied…
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Decrying White Peril: Interracial Sex and the Rise of Anticolonial Nationalism in the Gold Coast The American Historical Review Volume 119, Issue 1 (February 2014) pages 78-110 DOI: 10.1093/ahr/119.1.78 Carina E. Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts In the summer and fall of 1919, the African-owned Gold Coast…
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‘Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature’: A Reading Denison University A. Blair Knapp Hall Room 201 300 Ridge Road Granville, Ohio 43023 Thursday, 2013-12-05, 16:30 EST (Local Time) The Women’s Studies Program welcomes Diana Mafe. The Women’s Studies Program welcomes Diana Mafe reading from her new book, Mixed Race Stereotypes in South…
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Diana Mafe Publishes Book What’s Happening Denison University, Department of English 2013-11-18 Diana Mafe, assistant professor of English, publishes her first book. Diana Mafe, Assistant Professor of English, has published her first book, Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature: Coloring Outside the (Black and White) Lines (Palgrave Macmillan 2013). In this work,…
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English prof. Diana Mafe pens literary analysis of biracial blacks The Denisonian: Denison University’s student publication since 1857 Granville, Ohio 2013-11-19 Curtis Edmonds, Forum Editor The United States is undoubtedly one of the most–if not the most–racially diverse country in the world, and seven percent of American children born in the last decade were bi-…
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Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature: Coloring Outside the (Black and White) Lines Palgrave Macmillan November 2013 208 pages 3 illustrations 5.500 x 8.500 inches Hardback ISBN: 978-1-137-36492-0, ISBN10: 1-137-36492-0 Diana Adesola Mafe, Assistant Professor of English Denison University, Granville, Ohio America’s new millennial interest in multiraciality coincides with South Africa’s post-apartheid…
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Goree: of Slavery, Signares and Foreigners with Cash dofo kow/ߘߝߏ ߞߏ ߎ/history matters 2013-01-16 Jody Benjamin Two of the hottest Hollywood films out right now deal with American slavery, “Lincoln” and “Django Unchained.” The history of slavery in the United State is once again in mainstream cultural vogue, this time with A-list directors Stephen Spielberg…