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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Month: March 2010
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Contentious Legacies: Mixed-Race in the Age of Colorblindess and Beyond University of Illinois, Urbana-Champiagn Asian American Cultural Center 2010-03-30 12:00 CDT (Local Time) Tessa Winklemann This presentation is about Mixed Race issues, the 2010 Census, and the history of the construction of race and the census in the United States. For more information, click here.
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Race marks: Miscegenation in nineteenth-century American fiction University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1997 195 pages Kimberly Anne Hicks This dissertation examines the process of miscegenation in the work of four authors who occupy pivotal positions in American writing about race. It is concerned with a variety of fictional and non-fictional texts produced by William Wells Brown,…
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Acts of Intercourse: “Miscegenation” in three 19th Century American Novels American Studies in Scandinavia Volume 27 (1995) pages 126-141 Domhnall Mitchell, Professor of English Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway Until this period of the evening, the duties of hospitality and the observances of religion had prevented familiar discourse. But the regular offices…
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Zadie Smith: Critical Essays Peter Lang Publishing Group March 2008 221 pages Paparback ISBN: 9978-0-8204-8806-6 Edited by: Tracey L. Walters, Associate Professor of Literature Stony Brook University Zadie Smith: Critical Essays is a timely collection of critical articles examining how Zadie Smith‘s novels and short stories interrogate race, postcolonialism, and identity. Essays explore the various…
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“Assimilating the Primitive”: Parallel Dialogues on Racial Miscegenation in Revolutionary Mexico Peter Lang Publishing Group 2004 179 pages, 4 tables Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8204-6322-3 Kelley R. Swarthout, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish Colgate University, New York This book examines the Mexican nationalist rhetoric that promoted race mixing as a cultural ideal, placing it within its broader…
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The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination Peter Lang Publishing Group 2004 198 pages ISBN: 978-0-8204-6206-6 Carlyle Van Thompson, Acting Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Education Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York The Tragic Black Buck examines the phenomenon, often paradoxical, of black males passing for white…