Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
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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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Category: Passing
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A powerful novel about ethnically fluid California, and the corrosive relationship between two Filipino brothers.
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The Prisms of Passing: Reading beyond the Racial Binary in Twentieth-Century U.S. Passing Narratives
…I examine a subset of racial passing narratives written between 1890 and 1930 by African American activist-authors, some directly affiliated with the NAACP, who use the form to challenge racial hierarchies through the figure of the mulatta/o and his or her interactions with other racial and ethnic groups.
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As an entrepreneur, civil-rights activist, and benefactor, Mary Ellen Pleasant made a name and a fortune for herself in Gold Rush–era San Francisco, shattering racial taboos.
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Then there was Mary Ellen Pleasant. She was one of the richest and most powerful people in the state — and she was a black woman. In fact she was a freedom fighter; her nickname was “Black City Hall.”
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Apart from a handful of exotic–and almost completely unreliable–tales surrounding his life, Richard Potter is almost unknown today. Two hundred years ago, however, he was the most popular entertainer in America–the first showman, in fact, to win truly nationwide fame.
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Transracialism, defined as both experiencing oneself as, and BEING, a race other than the race assigned to one by society, does not exist…
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This article examines Zoë Wicomb’s wide-ranging use of intertextuality in the novel Playing in the Light to explore the links between identity construction and postcolonial authorship.
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Passing as Post-Racial: Philip Roth’s The Human Stain, Political Correctness, and the Post-Racial Passing Narrative Contemporary Literature Volume 58, Number 2, Summer 2017 pages 233-261 Mollie Godfrey, Assistant Professor of English James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia In March 2016, Robert Folsom published an article in The Socionomist declaring that the rise of Donald Trump as…
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This Article is the first to coin, analyze, and propose a theory of reverse passing. It also deepens the rich and rising scholarship examining performance theory and the pliability of racial identity.
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Creative Producer, Passing by Indigo Griffiths Arts Jobs Arts Council England March 2018 Closes: 2018-03-26 Location: London, England Type: Part-Time Salary: Paid (£10k-15k pro rata) Artform: Theater Contact: Gemma Aked-Priestley and Indigo Griffiths Description Chicago. 1941. Joey, John and Eliza are siblings but their lives are about to take different paths. Joey is embracing the…