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: December 2011
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The passing of Charles Chesnutt: Mining the white tradition Wasafiri Volume 13, Issue 27 pages 5-10 DOI 10.1080/02690059808589583 Sarah Meer, Lecturer of English Univeristy of Cambridge In May 1880, the young Charles Chesnutt confided to his diary his ambition to write a book. Its object would be ‘not so much the elevation of the colored people’—the concern…
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Boucicault’s misdirections: Race, transatlantic theatre and social position in The Octoroon Atlantic Studies Volume 6, Number 1 (April 2009) pages 81-95 DOI: 10.1080/14788810802696287 Sarah Meer, Lecturer of English Univeristy of Cambridge This article challenges a number of myths the Irish-American melodramatist Dion Boucicault himself created about his play The Octoroon. Boucicault claimed that London theatre…
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The Negro Defined The Yale Law Journal Volume 20, Number 3 (January, 1911) pages 224-225 In many of the states where a considerable portion of the population is colored, statutes define the term negro and establish his status where the same is considered, because of local conditions, as essentially different from that of Caucasians. Where…
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The Octoroon and English Opinions of Slavery American Quarterly Volume 8, Number 2 (Summer, 1956) pages 166-170 Nils Erik Enkvist Akademi Abo, Finland After his great successes, and notably that of Colleen Bawn, Dion Boucicault became something of a leading figure among English-speaking playwrights, while the critics as well as the public eagerly watched his…
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The “myth of racial democracy”, like the good myth it is, contains distortions in its much vaunted absolute equality, but does contain partial truths in indicating a singularity in the relationship between the races, mainly between races and culture. Indeed, several studies prove there to have been one distinguishing feature in Portuguese colonization: the incentive…
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Wealthy free women of color in Charleston, South Carolina during slavery University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2007 271 pages Publication Number: AAT 3275800 ISBN: 9780549175599 Rita Reynolds, Assistant Professor of History Wagner College, Staten Island, New York This dissertation focuses on the lives and experiences of a small group of affluent free mulatto women in antebellum…
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Chinese Caucasian interracial parenting and ethnic identity University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1988 264 pages Publication Number: AAT 8813254 Jeffrey B. Mar This exploratory study looks at Chinese-Caucasian interracially married parents’ experience of raising their children. The goal is to characterize these parents’ stances toward their children’s ethnic identity. A semi-structured, clinical interview was developed for…