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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Multiple Passings and the Double Death of Langston Hughes Biography Volume 23, Number 4 (Fall 2000) pages 670-693 E-ISSN: 1529-1456 Print ISSN: 0162-4962 DOI: 10.1353/bio.2000.0043 Juda Charles Bennett, Associate Professor of English The College of New Jersey Desire to us Was like a double death, Swift dying Of our mingled breath, Evaporation Of an unknown…
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Was Your Mama Mulatto? Notes toward a Theory of Racialized Sexuality in Gayl Jones’s “Corregidora” and Julie Dash’s “Daughters of the Dust” Callaloo Volume 27, Number 3 (Summer, 2004) pages 768-787 E-ISSN: 1080-6512, Print ISSN: 0161-2492 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2004.0136 Caroline A. Streeter, Associate Professor of English University of California, Los Angeles Gayl Jones’s novel Corregidora (1975)…
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Race Passing and American Individualism University of Massachusetts Press February 2003 176 pages Cloth ISBN: 1-55849-377-8 (Print on Demand) Kathleen Pfeiffer, Professor of English Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan A literary study of the ambiguities of racial identity in American culture In the literature of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, black characters who pass for…
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New NAACP Leader Looks Ahead National Public Radio Tell Me More 2008-05-20 Michel Martin, Host Benjamin Jealous is the new president of the NAACP. Jealous, a former news executive and lifelong human rights activist, discusses his new post and the ever-changing role of the NAACP in the civil rights movement. MICHEL MARTIN, host: I’m Michel…
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Mapping the liminal identities of mulattas in African, African American, and Caribbean literatures Pennsylvania State University December 2006 285 pages AAT: 3343682 ISBN: 9780549992738 Khadidiatou Gueye Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy December 2006 In twentieth-century African, African American, and Caribbean literatures, mixed-blood women are often misread…
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Skin, race and space: the clash of bodily schemas in Frantz Fanon’s Black Skins, White Masks and Nella Larsen’s Passing Cultural Geographies Volume 18, Number 1 (2011-01-06) pages 25-41 DOI: 10.1177/1474474010379953 Steve Pile, Professor of Human Geography The Open University, United Kingdom Nella Larsen’s novel Passing offers the opportunity to reconsider the relationship between race…
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The “One Drop Rule” revisited: Mary Ann McQueen of Montgomery County, North Carolina Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2010-12-21 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Many people, perhaps most, think of “race” as an objective reality. Historically, however, racial categorization has been unstable, contradictory, and arbitrary. Consider the…
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Scholars Say Chronicler of Black Life Passed for White New York Times 2010-12-26 Felicia R. Lee Renown came to Jean Toomer with his 1923 book “Cane,” which mingled fiction, drama and poetry in a formally audacious effort to portray the complexity of black lives. But the racially mixed Toomer’s confounding efforts to defy being stuck…