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 2015
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Allyson Hobbs, A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life [Varlack Review] 49th Parallel Issue 37 (2015-11-19) pages 66-68 ISSN: 1753-5894 Christopher Allen Varlack, Lecturer Department of English University of Maryland Allyson Hobbs, A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. 382 pp.…
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PART 1: Dispatches from Dream City: Zadie Smith and Barack Obama Electric Lit 2010-10-19 The Editor Reading and re-reading Zadie Smith’s spookily empathetic essay about Dreams of My Father and the natural linguistic flexibility of the biracial, upwardly mobile figure, the inevitable thought occurred to me: Is Zadie Smith the Barack Obama of literature? Consider…
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The Quadroon; or, A Lover’s Adventures In Louisiana Robert M. DeWitt 1856 430 pages Captain Mayne Reid (1818-1883) Read the entire book here.
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“I’ve got a piece coming out for Buzzfeed about the word mulatto. I think that’s a good word to start using more often. People don’t like the word, but they can’t point to why, or they think it’s a reference to a mule. But the word is actually an Arabic word referencing people of mixed…
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This week marks the release of Loving Day, the new novel from Mat Johnson, author of “Pym,” “Drop,” “Hunting in Harlem,” “Incognegro,” and others. Johnson and I spoke last week on Skype.
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My white father and Black mother both encouraged me to be Black, to embrace Black, both as a label and as a way of being part of the world. To claim the Black community as my own. To them this was an act of resistance against a society that would devalue Black people and Blackness…
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“Many people portray the history of race in the United States as the rise of the “one drop of blood” rule. We have made too much of this. It was not the one-drop rule that kept the edifice of Jim Crow so strong. Racism could work through many different rules about ancestry, and it did.…
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The Octoroon, a Tragic Mulatto Tale of the Old South Jubilo! The Emancipation Century 2011-01-23 Alan Skerrett, Jr, Editor Washington, D.C. The Octoroon is a tragic mulatto play by Irish playwright and actor Dion Boucicault. It opened on Broadway in 1859, just a few years before the American Civil War. The play was based on…
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The Old Neighborhood, A Novel Curbside Splendor Publishing April 2014 502 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1940430003 Bill Hillmann Bill Hillmann’s debut novel, The Old Neighborhood, is the story of teenager Joe Walsh, the youngest in a large, mixed-race family living in Chicago. After Joe witnesses his older brother commit a gangland murder, his friends and family…
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We Must Be Alive: Among the Wild Mulattos & Other Tales by Tom Williams Electric Lit 2015-11-13 Rosie Clarke In his 1991 hit song, Black or White, Michael Jackson meditates on racial equality, singing, “I’m not going to spend/My life being a color.” However, Jackson’s well-documented, complicated relationship with his African American appearance speaks to…