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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A Breezy Chameleon, Blurring Social Borders The New York Times 2014-02-16 Jennifer Schuessler, Staff Editor When the literary scholar George Hutchinson was in the archives at Howard University one afternoon a decade ago, he thought he knew which story of a neglected African-American woman writer he was chasing. He was at work on a biography…
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In “Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe,” Matthew Pratt Guterl brings out a little known side of the celebrated personality, showing how her ambitions of later years were even more daring and subversive than the youthful exploits that made her the first African American superstar.
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American Cocktail: A “Colored Girl” in the World Harvard University Press 2014-02-17 352 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches 20 halftones Hardcover ISBN 9780674073050 Anita Reynolds (1901-1980), actress, dancer, model, and psychologist with Howard Miller, Professor of Education and Chair in the Department of Secondary Education Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York Edited by: George Hutchinson,…
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New Rabbi at Manhattan’s Central Synagogue ‘a Pioneer’ The Wall Street Journal 2014-01-17 Sophia Hollander Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl Is Daughter of a Korean Buddhist Immigrant and an American Jew Growing up as the daughter of a Korean Buddhist immigrant and an American Jew in Tacoma, Wash., Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl said some family members…
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Undoing Racial Identification and Redoing Ethical Cultivation: Passing as a Performance of Identity and an Ethics of Self-Making Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York Honors Thesis Fall 2013 42 pages Paige Meserve Submitted to the Department of Religion Paige Meserve uses contemporary affect theory and queer theory to explore how racial identities are performed (and taken…
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The Life And Times Of Adella Hunt Logan: Educator, Mother, Wife, And Suffragist, 1863-1915 Florida State University November 2012 Daria Willis Adella Hunt Logan was a woman trapped between two worlds. She was a mulatto who suffered from the pressures and injustices of Jim Crow America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The…
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Imagining Brazil: Seduction, Samba Canadian Woman Studies / Les Caheiers de la Femme Volume 20, Number 2 (2000) pages 48-56 Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada En utilisant des paroles de chants rythmés sur la samba et d‘autre matériel ethnographique, l‘auteure detecte la presence du mulâtre et de propos racistes dans…
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Defying Categorization: The Work of Suzette Mayr Canadian Woman Studies / Les Caheiers de la Femme Volume 23, Number 2 (2004) pages 71-75 Katie Petersen Le corpus littéraire de Suzette Mayr examine les croisements raciaux, la sexualité marginalisée et la formation de l’identité personnelle dans des espaces indéfinis. Ses recueils de poemès et ses nouvelles…
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The Widows NeWest Press April 1998 256 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-896300-30-6 Suzette Mayr Hannelore, Clotilde, and Frau Schnadelhuber are three old women tired of living in a world which does not allow old women to be seen or heard. Deciding to shake their fists at such a world, the three women plot to go over…
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Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge West Virginia University Press December 2013 160 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-1-935978-24-4 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-935978-23-7 ePub ISBN: 978-1-935978-25-1 PDF ISBN: 978-1-938228-64-3 Original Text by Frances Harriet Whipple (1805-1878) with Elleanor Eldridge (1794-1862) Edited by: Joycelyn K. Moody, Sue E. Denman Distinguished Chair in American Literature and Professor of English University of Texas,…