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: February 2013
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Toni Morrison and the Evolution of American Biracial Identity Occidental College Oxy Scholar: ECLS Student Scholarship Submisions for 2009 2008-12-10 17 pages Emily Isenberg She enchanted the entire school. When teachers called on her, they smiled encouragingly. Black boys didn’t trip her in the halls; white boys didn’t stone her, white girls didn’t suck their…
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Dismembering the Master Narrative: Michelle Cliff’s Attempt to Rewrite Jamaican History in Abeng St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York English Senior Seminar Papers 2012-11-27 27 pages Marissa Petta St. John Fisher College Abeng by Michelle Cliff is a coming-of-age novel set in colonial Jamaica. The heroine, Clare, struggles with defining herself across the lines…
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White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001 [Wintz Review] White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001, Michael Phillips, (The University of Texas Press, P.O. Box 7819, Austin, TX, 78713-7819) 2006. Contents. Illus. Notes. Biblio. Index. P. 267. East Texas Historical Journal Volume XLV (45), Number 2, Fall 2007 Cary D. Wintz,…
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Nella Larsen’s “Passing” introduces two African American women on a quest for an integrated identity. Irene and Clare are two pale-skinned, childhood friends who are light enough to pass for white. Passing is a work concerned with the representation and construction of race.
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As this chapter will argue, soon after Anglo Texas’ separation from Mexico in the 1835-1836 revolution, white elites created a society rooted in the absolute legal separation of the white and black worlds. In order to prevent the development of a mulatto population that might inherit the political and economic wealth of the racial ruling…
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Well, I would say I consider myself more black than white, but more biracial than anything else… …My identity is biracial. But I say that I’m more black than white because for a lot of biracial people I think this sort of an attempt to balance both parts of their heritage with equal weight. In…
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I was taken aback by her verbal slap and had a visceral reaction to it. I punctured the sudden pregnant pause in the room with an assertive, visibly annoyed and equally voluminous, “Yeah, that’s right.” I shot a glance at Gilbert’s brown-skinned daughter across the room, who was smiling an uncomfortable smile of embarrassment. I…