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: November 2013
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Subjecting Pleasure: Claude McKay’s Narratives of Transracial Desire Journal of Black Studies Volume 44, Number 7 (October 2013) pages 706-724 DOI: 10.1177/0021934713507579 Smita Das, 2012-2013 Dissertation Fellow University of Illinois, Chicago This article explores the threat posed by the Afro-Asian body in Claude McKay’s novels, Banjo (1929) and Banana Bottom (1933). Banjo’s narrative of transracial…