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: May 2012
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Children of the banished dragon The Daily Post Liverpool, England 2006-01-23 Lew Baxter Lew Baxter reports on a shameful episode after World War II when Chinese sailors who had risked their lives for Britain were deported back to China, many leaving behind distraught British wives and children. Even 60 years later, tears and trauma trail…
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Eurasians: The First British Born Chinese? DimSum: The British Chinese community website 2007-06-30 Yvonne Foley I am a Eurasian. I am the daughter of an English mother and a Shanghai father. In traditional Chinese culture, having a Chinese father, I am regarded as being Chinese. I am part of a community that has been around…
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Jean Toomer, Mulatto and Modernist: the Fused Race and Fused Form of Cane Oklahoma State University May 1997 76 pages Rhonda Lea McClellan Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate College of the Oklahoma State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS Preface In the fall of 1993,…
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To “Flash White Light from Ebony”: The Problem of Modernism in Jean Toomer’s Cane Twentieth Century Literature Volume 46, Number 1 (Spring 2000) pages 1-19 Catherine Gunther Kodat, Professor of English and American Studies Hamilton College, Clinton, New York The mirror stage is a drama whose internal thrust is precipitated from insufficiency to anticipation–and which…
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‘Brother Mine’ highlights unique relationships The Oakland Post: Oakland University’s Independent Newspaper Rochester, Michigan 2011-02-08 Ryan Hegedus Reading other peoples’ mail can land you in serious trouble with the government. Or, in the case of Dr. Kathleen Pfeiffer, it can land you a book deal. Pfeiffer, an associate professor of English at Oakland…
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An extraordinary literary friendship, preserved in letters
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When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote: African-Native American Literature University of Illinois Press 2003 328 pages 6 x 9 in. Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-02819-9 Edited by: Jonathan Brennan, Professor of English Mission College, Santa Clara, California An exploration of the literature, history, and culture of people of mixed African-Native American descent An exploration of the literature, history,…
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“Cane”, Race, and “Neither/Norism” The Southern Literary Journal Volume 32, Number 2 (Spring, 2000) pages 90-101 Charles Harmon “My racial composition and my position in the world are realities which I alone may determine.” —Jean Toomer to Horace Liveright Of all people, Jean Toomer wrote Cane. For a long time, this fact has made critics…