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  • Introduction: Passing, Imitations, Crossings

    Introduction: Passing, Imitations, Crossings Humanities Research Volume XVI. Number 1 (2010) Monique Rooney, Lecturer and Honours Convenor College of Arts and Social Sciences Austrailian National University When it was revealed that Anglo-Australian writer Helen Darville had passed as Ukrainian to publish a novel about the Holocaust, there was much public and scholarly debate about the…

  • “Recoil” or “Seize”?: Passing, Ekphrasis and “Exact Expression” in Nella Larsen’s Passing

    “Recoil” or “Seize”?: Passing, Ekphrasis and “Exact Expression” in Nella Larsen’s Passing Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing and Culture Volume 3, Number 2, Fall 2001 Monique Rooney, Lecturer and Honours Convenor College of Arts and Social Sciences Austrailian National University Part One: Deep Nothing Mona Lisa’s famous smile is a thin mouth receding into…

  • More Than A Few Words About Post-War German Cinema, Race and ‘Toxi’

    More Than A Few Words About Post-War German Cinema, Race and ‘Toxi’ Shadow and Act: On Cinema of the African Diaspora 2012-08-01 Sergio Mims, Staff Writer For anyone interested in foreign films, one of the most interesting periods of German filmmaking was the post war period between 1946 to the mid 1960’s. In effect, only…

  • Brown Eyes: A Selection of Creative Expressions by Black and Mixed Race Women

    Brown Eyes: A Selection of Creative Expressions by Black and Mixed Race Women Troubador Publishing 2006 292 pages 5 x 0.6 x 8 inches ISBN 10: 1905237146; ISBN-13: 978-1905237142 Edited by: Nicole Moore Brown Eyes is a rare collection of poetry and autobiographical writing from a diverse group of black and mixed-race women—everyday women expressing…

  • The Negro in Washington: A Study in Race Amalgamation

    The chief interest of the author in the Negro problem has centered about the matter of racial intermixture—the Mulatto problem—and most of his writings have had to do with this evil.

  • Is Obama Now Black (Enough) Because He’s White?

    Is Obama Now Black (Enough) Because He’s White? The Huffington Post 2012-08-02 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University With the November election less than 100 days away, the Obama campaign continues to come up against questions about the president’s racial identity. Most recently, reports that the president is “passing,” or claiming that he’s representing…

  • Is Being Biracial an Advantage for Obama?

    Is Being Biracial an Advantage for Obama? ABC News 2008-03-21 Emily Friedman The son of a black man and a white woman, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., says he’s seen and heard it all.   From his grandmother’s fear of black men on the street to his former pastor’s perceived anti-American rants, Obama said Tuesday that…

  • What Miscegenation is! And What We are to Expect Now That Mr. Lincoln is Re-elected

    What Miscegenation is! And What We are to Expect Now That Mr. Lincoln is Re-elected Waller & Willets, Publishers, New York c. 1865 8 pages Source: Harvard University via The Hathi Trust Digital Library L. Seaman, LL. D. “What, is Miscegenation?” is an oft repeated inquiry. A word not recognized by Webster, Johnson, or Worcester,…

  • Mississippi Black Code (1865)

    Mississippi Black Code (1865) America’s Reconstruction: People and Politics After The Civil War Digital History: using new technologies to enhance teaching and research 2011 The Civil Rights of Freedmen in Mississippi (Approved November 25, 1865) Section 1. Be it enacted by the legislature of the State of Mississippi, That all freedmen, free Negroes, and mulattoes…

  • Dawn of the Different: The Mulatto Zombie in Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead

    Dawn of the Different: The Mulatto Zombie in Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead The Journal of Popular Culture Volume 45, Issue 3 (June 2012) pages 551–571 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2012.00944.x Justin Ponder WHILE ZOMBIE FILMS DO NOT BLATANTLY FOCUS ON miscegenation or mulattos, interracial themes abound in them. In George A. Romero’s Night of the Living…