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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Marion: The Story of an Artist’s Model McGill-Queen’s University Press 2012-03-19 410 pages 21 b&w photos 6 x 9 Paper (077353962X) 9780773539624 Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954) Introduction by: Karen E. H. Skinazi, Lecturer Princeton Writing Program Princeton University The daughter of an English merchant father and Chinese mother, Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954) was a wildly popular fiction…
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“¿Y ahora qué vas a hacer, mulata?”: Hip choreographies in the Mexican cabaretera film Mulata (1954)
“¿Y ahora qué vas a hacer, mulata?”: Hip choreographies in the Mexican cabaretera film Mulata (1954) Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory Volume 18, Issue 3, November 2008 Special Issue: Sensualidades: Sounds and Movement in Latina/o Culture pages 215-233 DOI: 10.1080/07407700802495951 Melissa Blanco Borelli, Lecturer of Dance Studies University of Surrey This essay…
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This article examines the filmic representations of the mulatta body in the films “Sparkle” (1976), “Flashdance” (1983) and “Honey” (2003). More specifically, this article seeks to unravel how the Hollywood filmic apparatus engages with signifiers of raced sexuality and hierarchies of dance styles to enforce and reify mythic narratives about dance, dancing raced bodies and…
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Historian Unmasks Quadroon Myth New Wave Tulane University News 2011-08-17 Carol J. Schlueter Historian Emily Clark has been here before, plowing through New Orleans archival documents from the early 1800s, handwritten in French. Her latest search has unveiled truths about a group of women that Clark says history has maligned: free women of color. “I…
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Passing and the figure of the Europeanized American in Edith Wharton’s fiction Purdue University 2005 216 pages Publication Number: AAT 3210795 ISBN: 97805425959510 Jasmina Starcevic A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of Purdue University by Jasmina Starcevic In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy This dissertation traces the evolution…
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To discuss the perspective of race in contemporary German literature, it is worthwhile to focus on those writers associated with the programmatic efforts of the Afro-Germans, a heterogeneous, biracial group of individuals usually of German and African or African American heritage and born since 1945. In 1984 the late feminist author and scholar Audre Lorde…
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Visualizando la Conciencia Mestiza: The Relation of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Mestiza Consciousness to Mexican American Performance and Poster Art University of South Florida 2010 53 pages Maria Cristina Serrano A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Liberal Arts Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies College of Arts and …
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Hybrid Veggies & Mixed Kids: Ecocriticism and Race in Ruth Ozeki’s Pastoral Heartlands Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies Volume 2 (2011) pages 22-29 Melissa Eriko Poulsen Literature Department University of California, Santa Cruz This paper explores the troping of racial categories and mixed race bodies in Ruth Ozeki’s All Over Creation (2003) and My…
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Teaching Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far: Multiple Approaches Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies Volume 1 (2010) pages 70-78 Wei Ming Dariotis, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies San Francisco State University This essay compares pedagogical approaches to teaching the literature of Edith Eaton in two distinct contexts: a course on Asian American Literature and a…