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: Monographs
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Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of Race University of Georgia Press 2002-12-02 280 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-2435-7 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-2724-2 Dean McWilliams (1939-2006), J. Richard Hamilton/Baker and Hostetler Professor of Humanities and professor of English Ohio University The first extended exploration of the construction of racial identity in Chesnutt’s writings Charles…
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In “Redeeming Mulatto,” Bantum reconciles the particular with the transcendent to account for the world as it is: mixed. He constructs a remarkable new Christological vision of Christ as tragic mulatto—one who confronts the contrived delusions of racial purity and the violence of self-assertion and emerges from a “hybridity” of flesh and spirit, human and…
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The Urban Underworld in Late Nineteenth-Century New York: The Autobiography of George Appo Bedford/St. Martin’s 2013 208 pages Paper ISBN-10: 0-312-60762-8; ISBN-13: 978-0-312-60762-3 George Appo (1856-1930) Edited with an Introduction by: Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Professor of History Loyola University, Chicago Through the colorful autobiography of pickpocket and con man George Appo, Timothy Gilfoyle brings to…
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In George Appo’s world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens, and expert swindlers worked the lucrative green-goods game. On a good night Appo made as much as a skilled laborer made in a year.
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Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical Oxford University Press October 2012 328 pages ISBN13: 9780199759378; ISBN10: 0199759375 Todd Decker, Assistant Professor, Musicology Washington University in St. Louis Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical tells the full story of the making and remaking of the most important musical in Broadway history. Drawing…
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands James Blackwood Paternoster Row 1857 198 pages Mary Seacole (1805-1881) Mary Seacole was born a free black woman in Jamaica in the early nineteenth century. In her long and varied life, she travelled in Central America, Russia, and Europe; found work as an inn-keeper and as a…
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“The Souls of Mixed Folk” examines representations of mixed race in literature and the arts that redefine new millennial aesthetics and politics. Focusing on black-white mixes, Elam analyzes expressive works—novels, drama, graphic narrative, late-night television, art installations—as artistic rejoinders to the perception that post-Civil Rights politics are bereft and post-Black art is apolitical.