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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Category: Passing
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Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. 415 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9781594202827. Steven F. Riley 2011-02-28 “This is the decade of Tiger Woods and Barack Obama, where we talked about race combinations,” Robert Groves, director of the federal agency, said…
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Dismembering the Master Narrative: Michelle Cliff’s Attempt to Rewrite Jamaican History in Abeng St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York English Senior Seminar Papers 2012-11-27 27 pages Marissa Petta St. John Fisher College Abeng by Michelle Cliff is a coming-of-age novel set in colonial Jamaica. The heroine, Clare, struggles with defining herself across the lines…
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Nella Larsen’s “Passing” introduces two African American women on a quest for an integrated identity. Irene and Clare are two pale-skinned, childhood friends who are light enough to pass for white. Passing is a work concerned with the representation and construction of race.
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This book takes its title from the homonymous novel by Nella Larsen who, during the Harlem Renaissance, posed the question of what it means to be black in a racist country.
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Clearly Invisible, by Marcia Alesan Dawkins The Christian Century: Thinking Critically. Living Faithfully. 2013-01-23 Rachel Stone The one time I visited my maternal grandfather’s house, we had planned to stay four days. I was ten and had seen my grandfather just once before in my life. I don’t recall if he ever spoke to me,…
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Hall of Fame Has Always Made Room for Infamy The New York Times 2013-01-08 Bill Pennington The Baseball Hall of Fame, the most august fraternity of its kind in American sports, unveils its latest induction class Wednesday. For the first time this year, balloters must weigh the fate of two eminent stars, Barry Bonds and…
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On This Day: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement University of North Carolina 2012-12-05 Alison Shay On December 5, 1925—87 years ago today—the jury in the annulment trial Rhinelander v. Rhinelander found in favor of a mixed-race woman sued for marriage annulment by her white husband. Leonard Kip Rhinelander, a wealthy white…
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Identity in “Passing” Allison Tetreault, Journalist and Student November 2011 Allison Tetreault Nella Larsen’s Passing destabilizes the traditional conception of ethnic, racial, and gender integrity, revolutionizing the very idea of an accepted definition of identity. By developing unstable characters, Larsen conveys how easy it is to lose one’s sense of self. Clare Kendry, who breaks…
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Passing for Black in Seventeenth-Century Maryland Chapter in: Interpreting the Early Modern World: Transatlantic Perspectives Springer 2011 246 pages eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-70759-4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-70758-7 Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2709-4 Edited by: Mary C. Beaudry and James Symonds Chapter Authors: Julia A. King, Associate Professor of Anthropology St. Mary’s College of Maryland Edward E. Chaney In the…