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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Tag: Nella Larsen
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A Dissertation submitted to the Department of American Literature and Culture, School of English, Faculty of Philosophy of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.
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English R1A: Keeping it Real?: Racial & Queer Passing in American Literature University of California, Berkeley Fall 2010 Rosa Martinez “I had a literature rather than a personality, a set of fictions about myself.” —Kafka Was the Rage by Anatole Broyard This course intends to explore the “art” of racial passing and masquerade in American…
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Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman’s Life Unveiled Louisiana State University Press 1994 496 pages 6.00 x 9.00 inches 12 halftones Paperback ISBN: 9780807120705 Thadious M. Davis, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought; Professor of English University of Pennsylvania Nella Larsen (1891–1964) is recognized as one of the most influential,…
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The Beginning and End of Nella Larsen’s Passing The Common Room: The Knox College Online Journal of Literary Criticism Volume 8, Number 1 (Spring 2005) Sarah Magin Nella Larsen’s novel Passing is centered on the character Clare Kendry, a light-skinned, biracial woman living as a white woman. She has married a white man who knows…
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Nella Larsen’s ‘Passing’ and the Fading Subject African American Review Volume 32, Issue 3 (Fall 1998) pages 373-386 Neil Sullivan . . . Irene Redfield wished, for the first time in her life, that she had not been born a Negro. For the first time she suffered and rebelled because she was unable to disregard…
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Nella Larsen’s Passing: More than Skin Deep McNair Scholars Research Journal Volume 15 pages 71-83 June 2011 Sarah Hicks California State University, Long Beach Nella Larsen’s novella Passing focuses on Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry-Bellew, two female Mulatto characters who pass into white communities; however, two white male minor characters, Hugh Wentworth and John “Jack”…
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Passing for what? Aspects of Identity in Nella Larsen’s Novels Black American Literature Forum Volume 20, Number 1/2 (Spring-Summer, 1986) pages 97-111 Cheryl A. Wall, Board of Governors Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English Rutgers University True, she was attractive, unusual, in an exotic, almost savage way, but she wasn’t one of them. —Quicksand (124)…
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“This damned business of colour”: Passing in African American novels and memoirs Lehigh University 2005-04-28 230 pages Publication Number: AAT 3167071 ISBN: 9780542026218 Irina C. Negrea Presented to the Graduate and Research Committee of Lehigh University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English The topic of this dissertation is an analysis…
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The Language Trap: U.S. Passing Fiction and its Paradox University of Kansas 2009 181 pages Masami Sugimori, Instructor of English University of South Alabama Submitted to the graduate degree program in English and the Graduate Faculty of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Through…
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Beyond the Pale: Unsettling “Race” and Womanhood in the Novels of Harper, Hopkins, Fauset and Larsen
Beyond the Pale: Unsettling “Race” and Womanhood in the Novels of Harper, Hopkins, Fauset and Larsen McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada December 1996 303 pages Teresa Christine Zackodnik, Professor of English University of Alberta, Canada A thesis Submitted to the School of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor Of…