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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A Phantom Childhood: Memories of my Ghost Brother by Heinz Insu Fenkl [Book Review] Korean Quarterly Spring 1998 Marie Lee Setting a novel from a child’s point of view can be as risky a venture as, say, writing a novel in dialect. How to wrest an adult meaning from a child’s unformed thoughts? But if…
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Boundaries Transgressed: Modernism and miscegenation in Langston Hughes’s “Red-Headed Baby” Atlantic Studies Volume 3, Issue 1 (April 2006) pages 97 – 110 DOI: 10.1080/14788810500525499 Isabel Soto This essay is an expanded and revised version of a paper read at the 8th International Conference On the Short Story in English, organized by the Instituto Universitario de…
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A young Amerasian comes of age as he grows up in the Korean city of Inchon and struggles to come to terms with his own identity and with his memories of a lost half-brother, whom his Korean mother sacrificed to marry his American father.
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“Des couleurs primitives”: Miscegenation and French Painting of Algeria Visual Resources Volume 24, Issue 3 (2008) pages 273 – 298 DOI: 10.1080/01973760802284638 Peter Benson Miller, Art Historian Rome Art Program The Romantic concept of “local color” refers to a site of painterly experimentation, the application of pigment in the chromatic construction of a picture. The…
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The 2010 census, which hit mailboxes this month, is causing scholars and mixed-race people to debate, for just the second time in the count’s history, the dilemma of whether or not to check multiple “race” boxes.