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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In the Shadow of Her Ancestry: The New Tragic Mulatta North Carolina State University, Raleigh 2004 60 pages Vonda Marie Easterling A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of North Carolina State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts This thesis examines the plight of the infamous tragic…
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Passing: Race, Identification and Desire Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts Volume 45, Number 4 (Fall 2003) pages 435-52 Catherine Rottenberg, Assistant Professor Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics and the Gender Studies Program Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel IN THE SECOND HALF of the nineteenth century, African-American writers such as William Wells Brown…
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A Dissertation submitted to the Department of American Literature and Culture, School of English, Faculty of Philosophy of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.
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English R1A: Keeping it Real?: Racial & Queer Passing in American Literature University of California, Berkeley Fall 2010 Rosa Martinez “I had a literature rather than a personality, a set of fictions about myself.” —Kafka Was the Rage by Anatole Broyard This course intends to explore the “art” of racial passing and masquerade in American…
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Spinning on Margins: An Analysis of Passing as Communicative Phenomenon Queen: a journal of rhetoric and power Special Issue: Rehtorics of identity: Place, Race, Sex and the Person (January 2005) From the conference held from 2005-01-20 through 2005-01-22 at the University of Redlands 21 pages Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Acts of black-to-white…
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Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel University of Illinois Press 2001 208 pages 6 x 9 in. Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07248-2 M. Giulia Fabi, Associate professor of American literature University of Ferrara, Italy Revealing the role of light-skinned black characters passing for white in African American literature A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2003…
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‘Brother Mine’ highlights unique relationships The Oakland Post: Oakland University’s Independent Newspaper Rochester, Michigan 2011-02-08 Ryan Hegedus Reading other peoples’ mail can land you in serious trouble with the government. Or, in the case of Dr. Kathleen Pfeiffer, it can land you a book deal. Pfeiffer, an associate professor of English at Oakland…
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The Beginning and End of Nella Larsen’s Passing The Common Room: The Knox College Online Journal of Literary Criticism Volume 8, Number 1 (Spring 2005) Sarah Magin Nella Larsen’s novel Passing is centered on the character Clare Kendry, a light-skinned, biracial woman living as a white woman. She has married a white man who knows…
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Nella Larsen’s ‘Passing’ and the Fading Subject African American Review Volume 32, Issue 3 (Fall 1998) pages 373-386 Neil Sullivan . . . Irene Redfield wished, for the first time in her life, that she had not been born a Negro. For the first time she suffered and rebelled because she was unable to disregard…