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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Slippery Language and False Dilemmas: The Passing Novels of Child, Howells, and Harper American Literature Volume 75, Number 4, December 2003 pages 813-841 Julie Cary Nerad, Associate Professor of English Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Conceived in slavery, gestated in racialist science, and bred in Jim Crow segregation, the U.S. race system calcified into a…
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English 190: Research Seminar: Literature of Racial Passing University of California, Berkeley Spring 2012 Cecil S. Giscombe, Professor of English A passing narrative is an account—fiction or nonfiction—of a person (or group) claiming a racial or ethnic identity that she does not (or they do not) “possess.” Such narratives speak—directly, indirectly, and very uneasily—to the…
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Half-Polish, Half-Italian, All-Black 2nd Story Chicago, Illinois 2012-04-21 James Anthony Zoccoli Little Jimmy is a half-Italian, half-Polish kid. When his parents divorce, he watches his family dynamic change when his mom gets remarried to an African-American man. Sometimes funny, sometimes complicated, the hard parts of growing up are easier to talk about from a grown-up…
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Complexity of Race In America C-SPAN Video Library Program ID: 305676-1 First Aired: 2012-06-03 New York Historical Society New York, New York 2012-04-12 Brent Staples, Host New York Times Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University Daniel Sharfstein, author of The Invisible Line [:Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White],…
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“Passing” and the American dream Salon Magazine 2003-11-03 Baz Dreisinger These days we’re supposed to think race doesn’t matter. But as “The Human Stain” and a raft of recent writing makes clear, we’re just as fascinated by its slippery boundaries as ever. Every now and then, cultural and social critics fashion an axiom that’s flippant,…
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Passing free Boston College Magazine Summer 2003 Black in the South, Irish in the North, The Healys Slipped the Bonds of Race in Civil War America James M. O’Toole, Associate Professor of History Boston College When Michael Morris Healy and Eliza Clark entered into a common-law union in 1829, they violated perhaps the most powerful…
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ENGL 773 (or) ENGL 873: Topics in Minority Literature: (W)Rites of Passing: Narratives of Shifting African American Identities Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania Fall 2012 Veronica Watson, Associate Professor of English “Passing” is a term that has, until quite recently, been used to refer almost exclusively to a person classified by society as a…
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Clare Kendry’s “True” Colors: Race and Class Conflict in Nella Larsen’s Passing Callaloo Volume 15, Number 4 (Autumn, 1992) pages 1053-1065 Jennifer DeVere Brody, Professor of Drama Stanford University Interpretations of Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929) often have failed to explain the complex symbolism of the narrative. Indeed, dismissive or tendentious criticisms of the text have…