Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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RTF 386 – Beyond Binaries: Mixed Race Representation and Critical Theory University of Texas, Austin Spring 2012 Mary Beltrán, Associate Professor of Media Studies This graduate seminar surveys historical and critical and cultural studies scholarship on the evolution of mixed race in U.S. film and media culture. American histories, cultures, and identities have traditionally been…
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Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism (review) Callaloo Volume 34, Number 1 (Winter 2011) pages 208-210 E-ISSN: 1080-6512; Print ISSN: 0161-2492 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2011.0007 Kirin Wachter-Grene University of Washington, Seattle Jared Sexton. Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Anxieties about American multiracial identity and practices, known…
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The Orange County War of 1856 W. T. Block, (1920-2007) 1979 Reprinted from W. T. Block, “Meanest Town on The Coast,” Old West, Winter, 1979, pp. 10ff. Sources: Galveston Weekly News and Tri-Weekly News, June 1 to July 15, 1856. The issue of July 15 of Tri-Weekly News contains a full, 8-column page of the…
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Re-Writing Race in Early American New Orleans Miranda n°5 (December 2011) Nathalie Dessens, Professor of American History and Civilization Université Toulouse 2, Le Mirail This article examines the representation of the racial pattern and pattern of race relations in early American New Orleans. Starting with a historical and historiographical contextualization, the article shows that race…
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The present essay seeks to explain the ideas about slavery, rape, and commerce embedded in and produced by the passionate desires of Franklin and his partners. For some years, historians interpreting the institutions and ideology of nineteenth-century southern slavery have focused their attentions on explaining slaveholders’ paternalist defenses of their planter institution.
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Symphony in Black and White: Krazy Kat Kontinued The Albany Times-Union Albany, New York 2008-11-20 Alexander Stern Don’t Touch My Comics: The Times Union Comics Panel takes a critical look at the funny pages. Some months ago, I wrote an appreciation of George Herriman’s classic strip, Krazy Kat; a strip frequently lauded as one of…
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Krazy Kat and Racial Identity Graphic Novels: ENGL 375TT (Spring 2009) University of Mary Wahsington 2009-02-01 Zach Whalen, Assistant Professor of English University of Mary Washington After doing some research on George Herriman, the writer and artist for Krazy Kat, I discovered that there has been a lot of critical analysis applied to this comic…
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Cup O’Doodles The Pennsylvania Gazette University of Pennsylvania Volume 109, Number 6 (July/August 2011) pages 54-57 Molly Petrilla Artist Gwyneth Leech C’81 started drawing on used paper cups as a distraction when she got “antsy,” but “then it began to really take over.” A few hundred cups later, she spent six weeks doing the same…