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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Neither White Nor Black: The Mulatto Character in American Fiction New York University Press 1978 280 pages ISBN-10: 0814709966; ISBN-13: 978-0814709962 9 x 6 x 1 inches This book is out of print. Judith R. Berzon The mulatto character has captured the imagination of American novelist in every period of our literature. For American writers, the…
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Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black Plume, an imprint of Penguin February 1996 304 pages 5.35 x 7.95in Paperback ISBN: 9780452275331 ePub eBook ISBN: 9781440665813 Adobe eBook ISBN: 9781440665813 Gregory Howard Williams, President University of Cincinnati Awards Los Angeles Times Book Prize Friends of…
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Family Histories of ‘Passing’ from Black to White Documented in Book Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2011-09-06 Katti Gray In the summer of 1993, as American-born Daniel Sharfstein registered Blacks to cast their first ballot in race-riven South Africa, he volunteered alongside a South African woman, who professed to be as authentically African as any…
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“To Be Suddenly White” explores the troubled relationship between literary passing and literary realism, the dominant aesthetic motivation behind the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century ethnic texts considered in this study.
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt and the Solution to the Race Problem Negro American Literature Forum Volume 3, Number 2 (Summer, 1969) pagess 52-56 June Socken Charles Waddell Chesnutt, the first American Negro short story writer and novelist of recognized professional quality, squarely faced the problem of Negro-White relations in America. Although his short story “The Wife…
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Rena’s Two Bodies: Gender and Whiteness in Charles Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars Studies in the Novel Volume 43, Numbers 1 (Spring 2011) pages 38-54 E-ISSN: 1934-1512 Print ISSN: 0039-3827 Melissa Ryan, Associate Professor of English Alfred University, Alfred, New York In a letter thirty years after The House Behind the Cedars was published,…
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Exploring Grays in a Black-and-White World Miller-McCune 2011-07-19 Julia M. Klein Two new books explore the intersection of race and identity in America by investigating families whose biracial members might—or might not—“pass” as white. Defining racial identity in the United States has always been a fraught enterprise, involving shifting intersections of law, custom, class, ancestry…
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Visually white, legally black: Miscegenation, the mulatto, and passing in American literature and culture, 1865–1933 Illinois State University 2004 193 pages Publication Number: AAT 3128271 Karen A. Chachere Many historians and literary scholars characterize the period between 1865-1933 as America’s preoccupation with the “Negro Question.” Admittedly, America was intrigued by the idea of the former…
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The Invisible Line Late Night Live ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Radio National 2011-06-13 Phillip Adams, Presenter Kris Short, Story Researcher and Producer Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law (and author of The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White) Vanderbilt University In America race has always been a potent…
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Life on the boundary: “Passing” and the limits of self-definition Rutgers University, Camden May 2011 46 pages Raven Marlenia Moses A thesis submitted to the Graduate School-Camden Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Graduate Program in English With the advent of…