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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Realist Historiography and the Legacies of Reconstruction in Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition American Literary Realism Volume 48, Number 2, Winter 2016 pages 147-165 Peter Zogas Charles W. Chesnutt had high hopes for his novel The Marrow of Tradition (1901). He thought that his retelling of the 1898 race riot and Democratic coup in…
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Author Junot Díaz Packs Thorne Hall Oxy Newsroom Occidental College, Los Angeles, California 2015-09-23 Media Contact: Jim Tranquada / (323) 259-2990 Marc Campos/Occidental College Ranging from profane to profound, from wisecracking to wistful, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz discussed the complexities and heartbreak of race and identity in America with a capacity crowd at Occidental…
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Her Father’s People Stanford Magazine July/August 2009 Erin Aubry Kaplan Antonin Kratochvil WEDDED IDEALISM: Danzy Senna was the middle child born to Fanny Howe and Carl Senna. For years, Danzy Senna thoughtfully explored issues of race and identity in fiction, including her novels Caucasia and Symptomatic. And then one day the author, walking through Harvard…
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White Earth members approve new constitution The Minneapolis Star Tribune 2013-11-21 Pam Louwagie New constitution does away with blood quantum rule. In a historic vote that could vastly increase their membership, White Earth Band of Ojibwe members have overwhelmingly approved a new constitution. The new document removes a requirement that tribal citizens possess one-quarter Minnesota…
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With “Symptomatic,” the follow-up to her acclaimed debut novel “Caucasia,” Danzy Senna again delves into race in America — and defies second-book syndrome
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Identity and racial ambiguity in Danzy Senna’s Caucasia North Carolina Central University 2015 82 pages Carole Bonita Montgomery Set in 1970s Boston, Danzy Senna’s novel, Caucasia (1998) centers around biracial Birdie Lee, whose racial identity is complex as she defines and redefines herself from her youth through young adulthood. Birdie and Cole Lee are daughters…
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Contested Identities: Racial Indeterminacy and Law in the American Novel, 1900-1942 University of Connecticut 2014-05-08 Rebecca S. Nisetich In Contested Identities, I chart the path of the legal and literary discourses on racial identity, codified by the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision and culturally ascendant in the early decades of the twentieth century. In this…
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An Artist Stands Before Her Fun House Mirror The New York Times 2016-01-06 Amanda Fortini Genevieve Gaignard, “A Golden State of Mind” installation, 2015. Credit: Eric Minh Swenson, via The Cabin LA and Diane Rosenstein LOS ANGELES — On a recent Friday afternoon, Genevieve Gaignard, a photographer, collagist and installation artist, was sitting on her…