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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Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora University Press of Florida 2014-06-17 240 pages 6.125 x 9.256 Hard Cover ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-4979-3 Bénédicte Boisseron, Associate Professor in French and Francophone Studies University of Montana In Creole Renegades, Bénédicte Boisseron looks at exiled Caribbean authors—Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, V. S. Naipaul, Maryse…
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“We Called That Touch” Boston Review 2016-03-28 Ed Pavlić, Professor of English and Creative Writing University of Georgia Race and the Intimate Tangle of American Experience It might seem to you that I am white. Then again, depending upon how and where we meet—and upon things in your life I know nothing about—it might seem…
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W.T. Jones — Carthage’s best-kept secret: From slave to industrialist in the South The Courier-Tribune Ashboro, North Carolina 2016-03-15 Judi Brinegar (Contributed photo) He was born the son of a slave and her white owner in 1833. By time time of his death in 1910, William T. Jones was one of the prominent business owners…
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“As White as Most White Women”: Racial Passing in Advertisements for Runaway Slaves and the Origins of a Multivalent Term American Studies Volume 54, Number 4, 2016 pages 73-97 Martha J. Cutter, Professor of English and Africana Studies University of Connecticut In 1731 a man named Gideon Gibson, along with several of his relatives, emigrated…
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Allyson Hobbs, A Chosen Exile, in conversation with Helena Brantley Kepler’s Books 1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park, California 94025 Tuesday, 2016-03-15, 19:30 PDT (Local Time) Presented by Peninsula Arts & Letters and Kepler’s Books Join us for a look back at the history of racial passing, and a topical discussion of race and identity…
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Beautiful White Girlhood?: Daisy Buchanan in Nella Larsen’s Passing African American Review Volume 47, Number 1, Spring 2014 pages 37-49 Sinéad Moynihan, Lecturer in English University of Exeter This article expands recent scholarship on race in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and intertextuality in Nella Larsen’s Passing by arguing that the latter is a…
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“A Hindu is white although he is black”: Hindu Alterity and the Performativity of Religion and Race between the United States and the Caribbean Comparative Studies in Society and History Volume 58, Issue 01, January 2016 pages 181-210 DOI: 10.1017/S0010417515000614 Alexander Rocklin Department of Religious Studies Willamette University, Salem, Oregon This essay uses the controversies…
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In 2005 Margaret Jones Bolsterli learned that her great-great-grandfather was a free mulatto named Jordan Chavis, who owned an antebellum plantation near Vicksburg, Mississippi. The news was a shock; Bolsterli had heard about the plantation in family stories told during her Arkansas Delta childhood, but Chavis’s name and race had never been mentioned.
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Twentieth Century-Fox’s Pinky is far from the first Hollywood feature film that depicts an interracial relationship. Despite the evolution of various censorship codes that forbid depicting “miscegenation,” Hollywood has a rich history of mining the salacious or elicit potential from interracial pairing on screen, from Broken Blossoms to Duel in the Sun, Showboat to Imitation…