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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4203W-01 – Racial Passing, Masquerade, and Transformation in African American Literature, Law, Film, and Culture University of Connecticut Fall 2010 Martha Cutter, Associate Professor of English What is “race”? What is “whiteness”? What is “blackness”? What does it mean to be “mixed-race” or “multi-racial” in the US? This course will examine what racial passing—people who…
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“Death by Misadventure”: Teaching Transgression in/through Larsen’s “Passing” College Literature Volume 37, Number 4, Fall 2010 pages 120-144 E-ISSN: 1542-4286 Print ISSN: 0093-3139 DOI: 10.1353/lit.2010.0013 Jessica Labbé, Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum Greensboro College, Greensboro, North Carolina This article provides college literature teachers with a detailed historical, theoretical, and…
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Miscegenation, assimilation, and consumption: racial passing in George Schuyler’s “Black No More” and Eric Liu’s “The Accidental Asian” MELUS Volume 33, Number 3 (Fall 2008) Multicultural and Multilingual Aesthetics of Resistance pages 169-190 Hee-Jung Serenity Joo, Associate Professor of English University of Manitoba “[E]ither get out, get white or get along.” —Schuyler, Black No More…
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“The Ineffaceable Curse of Cain”: Racial Marking and Embodiment in Pinky Camera Obscura – 43 Volume 15, Number 1 (May 2000) pages 95-121 DOI: 10.1215/02705346-15-1_43-95 Elspeth Kydd, Senior Lecturer of Film Studies and Video Production University of the West of England, Bristol Look at my fingers, are not the nails of a bluish tinge ……
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Passing For Horror: Race, Fear, and Elia Kazan’s “Pinky” Genders: Presenting Innovative Work in the Arts, Humanities and Social Theories Issue 40 (2004) Miriam J. Petty, Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts Rutgers University, Newark Film genres routinely mix and evolve over time in ways that change our expectations of them, and change the…
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Mixed Is/Mixed Ain’t Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2010-08-09 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim, Assistant Director, Multicultural Resource Center and Africana Community Coordinator Oberlin College …As someone who has never passed as anything other than black (and maybe a lil’ somethin’ else from time to time, but always black), I was surprised to find just how…
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Family Matters in the Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt The Southern Literary Journal Volume 33, Number 2, Spring 2001 pages 30-43 E-ISSN: 1534-1461 Print ISSN: 0038-4291 DOI: 10.1353/slj.2001.0012 William M. Ramsey, Professor of English Francis Marion University Writing fiction one hundred years ago, Charles W. Chesnutt believed that America’s racial future was best embodied in…