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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The uneasy existence of being black and passing for white.
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Mixed Race-Politics and Homi Bhabha’s Third Space Theory in Charles Chesnutt’s “The Wife of His Youth” and “The Sheriff’s Children” The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English Volume 20, Issue 1 (2018) Article 6 (pages 37-50) Gabrielle Sanford Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia Tru Leverette,…
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Band of Angels, A Novel Louisiana State University Press August 1994 (originally published in 1955) 375 pages 5.50 x 8.50 inches no illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9780807119464 Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) Amantha Starr, born and raised by a doting father on a Kentucky plantation in the years before the Civil War, is the heroine of this…
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It’s been awhile since I’ve shared the books that I read while writing “Half-Truths.” Here are two more books that have helped me understand one of my characters, Lillian Harris.
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Writers Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Violet Kupersmith, and T Kira Madden speak to each other about mixed-race identities in life and literature
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Biracial Identity Development in Danzy Senna’s Caucasia A chapter in Body Horror and Shapeshifting: A Multidisciplinary Exploration Brill 2014-01-04 pages: 145–152 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-84888-306-2 DOI: 10.1163/9781848883062_016 Jin-Yu Lin Biracial individuals frequently go through a search for identity, a struggle to choose an identity and finally to accept their inherent multiplicity. They identify with more than…
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According to Lonnie, unlike other toddlers, he had no interest in playing. In his autobiography, which he’d completed by age eleven, he stated he’d place his dolls in chairs and preach to them.