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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Day: March 16, 2012
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James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of the Passing Novel American Literature Volume 84, Number 1 (March 2012) pages 1-29 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-1540932 Geoffrey Sanborn, Associate Professor of Literature Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Sanborn’s essay seeks to demonstrate that The Headsman, an overlooked 1833 novel by James Fenimore Cooper, is an allegory of racial passing. After…
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This is Not a Biography: Pauline Johnson and the Process of National Identity Canadian Poetry Volume 48 (Spring/Summer 2001) Shelley Hulan, Associate Professor of English University of Waterloo, Canada Carole Gerson and Veronica Strong-Boag. Paddling Her Own Canoe: the Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson–Tekahionwake. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2000. 331 pp. Anyone…
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A five-year-old girl suddenly appears on the doorstep of a well-to-do Hamburg family. The members of the multi-generational, white household react differently to the arrival of Toxi, who is black, the daughter of an African-American G.I. and a white German woman who has died.
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“Race Under Reconstruction in German Cinema” investigates postwar racial formations via a pivotal West German film by one of the most popular and prolific directors of the era. The release of Robert Stemmle’s Toxi (1952) coincided with the enrolment in West German schools of the first five hundred Afro-German children fathered by African-American occupation soldiers.
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Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) University of Toronto Press June 2000 354 pages Paper ISBN: 9780802080240 Cloth ISBN: 9780802041623 Veronica Strong-Boag, Professor of Women’s History University of British Columbia Carole Gerson, Professor of English Royal Society of Canada at Simon Fraser University Winner of the Raymond Klibansky…
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Virginia Bastardy Laws: A Burdensome Heritage William and Mary Law Review Volume 9, Issue 2 (1967) Article 8 pages 402-429 Dominik Lasok, Professor of Law University of Exeter The theory that British settlers brought with them as much of the common Law of England as was appropriate to their circumstances in the New World, propounded by…
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The Founder Effect and Deleterious Genes American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 30, Issue 1 (January 1969) pages 55-60 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330300107 Frank B. Livingstone (1928-2005), Professor Emeritus of Biological Anthropology University of Michigan During the rapid growth of a population from a few founders, a single deleterious gene in a founder can attain an appreciable…
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Tough lessons in CTC’s play about community destruction MPR News Minnesota Public Radio 2012-03-15 Nikki Tundel, Reporter St. Paul, Minn. — A century-old story of discrimination is the basis for a world premiere production opening Friday in Minneapolis. “Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy” is the Children’s Theatre Company’s adaption of the real-life events of…