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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This essay is a response to an article recently published by Will South titled “A Missing Question Mark: The Unknown Henry Ossawa Tanner” in the journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. Tanner was the foremost African American artist of the late 19th century. He has emerged as an exemplar of Black achievement in the arts and is…
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Affirming Blackness: A Rebuttal to Will South’s “A Missing Question Mark: The Unknown Henry Ossawa Tanner” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide: a journal of ninetheenth-century visual culture Volume 9, Issue 2 (Autumn 2010) Naurice Frank Woods, Visiting Assistant Professor of African American Studies University of North Carolina, Greensboro George Dimock, Associate Professor of Art History University of…
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The First Black Prairie Novel: Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance’s Autobiography and the Repression of Prairie Blackness Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes Volume 45, Number 2 (Spring 2011) pages 31-57 E-ISSN: 1911-0251; Print ISSN: 0021-9495 DOI: 10.1353/jcs.2011.0022 Karina Vernon, Assistant Professor of English University of Toronto This essay situates Chief Buffalo Child’s Long Lance:…
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‘Kissing the rod that chastised me’: Scarlett, Rhett and Miscegenation in Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind (1936) Irish Journal of American Studies Volume 13/14, (2004/2005) pages 123-137 Sinéad Moynihan, Lecturer in English University of Exeter “It’s all so mixed up,” Cindy muses in a 2001 parody of Gone With the Wind, as she imaginatively…
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Marginal Man and Hard-Boiled Detective: Racial Passing in Robert Skinner’s Wesley Farrell Series Clues: A Journal of Detection Volume 26, Number 3 (Spring 2008) pages 56-69 DOI: 10.3172/CLU.26.3.56 Sinéad Moynihan, Lecturer in English University of Exeter The author argues that tropes of detection and racial passing are mutually compatible in Robert Skinner’s six New Orleans-set…
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This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of ‘passing’. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction.
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Turning Dreams to Chaos: Multiplicity and the Construction of Identity Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California 2003 249 pages ISBN (eBook): 978-3-638-68960-1 Archive No.: V7499 DOI: 10.3239/9783638689601 Tamara Hollins A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Claremont Graduate University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate Field…
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Racial mixture, racial passing, and white subjectivity in Absalom, Absalom! The Faulkner Journal Volume 23, Issue 2 (Spring 2008) pages 3-22 Masami Sugimori, Instructor of English University of South Alabama In his 1987 study of the critical reception of Absalom, Absalom! Bernd Engler points out that “since the mid-Seventies the only interpretations to gain favour…