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: Dissertations
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Charles Chesnutt Racial Relation Progression Throughout Career Cleveland State University May 2011 60 pages Lindy R. Birney Submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree Master of English Charles Chesnutt began his career with an ideology that race should not be a category in which to judge others. He felt that through literature he…
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The Experiences of Mixed-Race Students In An Urban Area University of Nebraska, Lincoln 2012 189 pages ISBN: 9781267282132 Germaine W. Huber University of Nebraska, Lincoln Mixed-race children are the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population, and it is essential that educators are aware of the unique experiences of this student population. The purpose of…
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Infiltrating the colonial city through the imaginaries of Metissage: Saint-Louis (Senegal), Saint-Pierre (Martinique) and Jeremie (Haiti) University of Iowa August 2015 281 pages Avonelle Pauline Remy, Assistant Professor of French Hope College, Holland, Michigan A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in French and Francophone World Studies…
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Identity and racial ambiguity in Danzy Senna’s Caucasia North Carolina Central University 2015 82 pages Carole Bonita Montgomery Set in 1970s Boston, Danzy Senna’s novel, Caucasia (1998) centers around biracial Birdie Lee, whose racial identity is complex as she defines and redefines herself from her youth through young adulthood. Birdie and Cole Lee are daughters…
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Contested Identities: Racial Indeterminacy and Law in the American Novel, 1900-1942 University of Connecticut 2014-05-08 Rebecca S. Nisetich In Contested Identities, I chart the path of the legal and literary discourses on racial identity, codified by the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision and culturally ascendant in the early decades of the twentieth century. In this…
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Language variation, audience design, and racial identity: an analysis of discourse in Danzy Senna’s “Caucasia” Purdue University 2015 81 pages ISBN: 9781339183824 Rachelle R. Henderson Previous studies examining sociolinguistic language variation, race, and identity focus primarily on self-defining monoracial audiences. Additionally, previous studies examining mixed race identity in interracial literature use traditional literary or historical…
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Violent Disruptions: Richard Wright and William Faulkner’s Racial Imaginations Harvard University September 2013 177 pages Linda Doris Mariah Chavers A dissertation presented to The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the subject of African and African American Studies Violent Disruptions contends…