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 Sharfstein wins 2012 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Vanderbilt Law School News Vanderbilt University 2012-03-16 Daniel Sharfstein, associate professor of law, has won the 2012 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for his sensitive account of the fine line people of mixed race have tread in the United States since the nation’s beginning, The Invisible…
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In America, race is a riddle. The stories we tell about our past have calcified into the fiction that we are neatly divided into black or white. It is only with the widespread availability of DNA testing and the boom in genealogical research that the frequency with which individuals and entire families crossed the color…
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Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line: Collected Stories Penguin Classics June 2000 304 pages 5.23 x 7.59in Paperback ISBN: 9780141185026 Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) Edited by: William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Unlike the popular “Uncle Remus” stories of Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W.…
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James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of the Passing Novel American Literature Volume 84, Number 1 (March 2012) pages 1-29 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-1540932 Geoffrey Sanborn, Associate Professor of Literature Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Sanborn’s essay seeks to demonstrate that The Headsman, an overlooked 1833 novel by James Fenimore Cooper, is an allegory of racial passing. After…
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Exploring Prejudice, Miscegenation, and Slavery’s Consequences in Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson The Kennesaw Journal of Undergraduate Research Volume 1, Issue 1, Article 3 (2011) 5 pages Steven Watson Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia This research paper analyzes Mark Twain’s use of racist speech and racial stereotypes in his novel Pudd’nhead Wilson. Twain has often been…
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In the Place of Clare Kendry: A Gothic Reading of Race and Sexuality in Nella Larsen’s Passing Callaloo Volume 34, Number 1, Winter 2011 pages 143-157 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2011.0024 Johanna M. Wagner Maastricht University Feeling her colour heighten under the continued inspection, she slid her eyes down. What, she wondered, could be the reason for such…
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Symphony in Black and White: Krazy Kat Kontinued The Albany Times-Union Albany, New York 2008-11-20 Alexander Stern Don’t Touch My Comics: The Times Union Comics Panel takes a critical look at the funny pages. Some months ago, I wrote an appreciation of George Herriman’s classic strip, Krazy Kat; a strip frequently lauded as one of…
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Krazy Kat and Racial Identity Graphic Novels: ENGL 375TT (Spring 2009) University of Mary Wahsington 2009-02-01 Zach Whalen, Assistant Professor of English University of Mary Washington After doing some research on George Herriman, the writer and artist for Krazy Kat, I discovered that there has been a lot of critical analysis applied to this comic…
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When Anita Florence Hemmings applied to Vassar in 1893, there was nothing in her records to indicate that she would be any different from the 103 other girls who were entering the class of 1897. But by August 1897, the world as well as the college had discovered her secret: Anita Hemmings was Vassar’s first…