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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Signifying on Passing: (Post) Post-Racialism, (Post) Post-Modernism, and (Post) Post-Marxism Columbia Journal of Race and Law Volume 1, Issue 3 (July 2012) pages 482-489 Christian B. Sundquist, Associate Professor of Law Albany Law School The social and legal relevance of racial passing appears to be fading as we ostensibly enter a color-blind, post-race era. During…
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‘Passing’ in colonial Colombia Havard University Gazette 2009-02-12 Corydon Ireland, Harvard News Office Racial categories today are self-evident — part of what social scientists might call “socially constructed discourse.” Contemporary people of one race are aware of what other races look like, as well as where they themselves belong in the racial scheme of things.…
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Literature and Racial Ambiguity Rodopi 2002 320 pages 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches Hardback ISBN: 978-90-420-1428-2 / 90-420-1428-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-90-420-1418-3 / 90-420-1418-0 Edited by: Teresa Hubel, Associate Professor of English Huron University College in London, Ontario Neil Brooks, Associate Professor of English Huron University College at Western University, London, Ontario Contents Neil Brooks…
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Black and White Both Cast Shadows: Unconventional Permutations of Racial Passing in African American and American Literature University of Arizona 2012 220 pages Derek Adams A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY In the Graduate College THE UNIVERSITY…
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Individualism, Success, and American Identity in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man African American Review Volume 30, Number 3 (Autumn, 1996) pages 403-419 Kathleen Pfeiffer, Professor of English Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan The title character in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man embodies the paradox of race and color because he is…
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In one of his posthumously published essays Georges Bataille poses a question that we might borrow to consider the narratological and epistemological quandaries at the heart of Nella Larsen’s telling of racial unbelonging in her 1929 novella, Passing. Bataille writes, “why must there be what I know? Why is it a necessity? . . .…
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Comedy: American Style Rutgers University Press October 2009 (Originally Published in 1933) 304 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4632-2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4631-5 Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) Edited and with an Introduction by: Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Professor of English University of Wisconsin, Madison Comedy: American Style, Jessie Redmon Fauset’s fourth and final novel, recounts the tragic tale of a…
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Passing as White: The Life Altering Effects on Loved Ones Southern Connecticut State University May 2006 122 pages Publication Number: AAT 1435422 ISBN: 9780542641824 Kathleen Daubney A Thesis Submitted to the School of Graduate Studies In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Master of Science This thesis analyzes the theme of passing…