Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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This book contains the results of Prof. Fischer’s investigations and is a model for those who will follow in his footsteps. His observations have convinced him that a new and permanent human race cannot be formed by the amalgamation of two diverse forms of man–not from any want of fertility—for amongst the Bastards there is…
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Accounting for the Audience in Historical Reconstruction: Martin Jones’s Production of Langston Hughes’s Mulatto Theatre Survey Number 36, Issue 1 (1995) pages 5-19 DOI: 10.1017/S0040557400006451 Jay Plum, Ph.D. Although Langston Hughes’s Mulatto holds the record as the second longest Broadway production of a play by an African American playwright (surpassed only by Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin…
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Liminality and Transgression in Langston Hughes’ “Mulatto” Cuadernos de investigación filológica (C.I.F.) Number 26 (2000) pages 263-271 ISSN: 0211-0547 Isabel Soto Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia This essay explores societal fear of the mulatto as charted by Langston Hughes’ play “Mulatto” (1931). “Mulatto” dramatizes the demand for social incorporation by a mixed-race young man,…
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Critical Mixed Race Studies 2010 Event Report 2011-02-17 Wei Ming Dariotis, Associate Professor Asian American Studies San Francisco State University, IPride Board dariotis@sfsu.edu Camilla Fojas, Associate Professor and Chair Latin American and Latino Studies DePaul University Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University Critical Mixed Race Studies…
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The Advantage Of Dual-Identities (A Case Study of Nabokov) Wired Magazine 2011-01-31 Jonah Lehrer, Contributing Editor Vladimir Nabokov was a lepidopterist. No, really. While Proust wasn’t actually a neuroscientist—just an extremely intuitive novelist—Nabokov spent six years as a research fellow at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, obsessing over the details of the Polyommatus blues.…
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A conversation with Daniel J. Sharfstein (Author of The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White) The Penguin Press January 2011 Lauren Hodapp, Senior Publicist The Penguin Press Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey…