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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“To Be Suddenly White” explores the troubled relationship between literary passing and literary realism, the dominant aesthetic motivation behind the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century ethnic texts considered in this study.
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Life on the boundary: “Passing” and the limits of self-definition Rutgers University, Camden May 2011 46 pages Raven Marlenia Moses A thesis submitted to the Graduate School-Camden Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Graduate Program in English With the advent of…
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Crossing Over: Racial Passing and Racial Uplift in Nella Larsen’s Fiction University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee 2009 34 pages Karly D. Beavers Senior Honors Thesis in American Studies Fundamental to the American myth is a juxtaposition of the “civilized” or “superior” majority with the “inferior” other. By classifying African Americans as inherently different from…
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Mar Gallego. Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance: Identity, Politics and Textual Strategies [Review] African American Review Volume 38 (Winter 2004) pages 720-723 Mar Gallego. Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance: Identity, Politics and Textual Strategies. Hamburg: Lit Verlag Munster, 2003. 214 pp. Zhou Yupei Until very recently, novels of passing that appeared during the…
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Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance: Identity Politics and Textual Strategies Lit Verlag Munster 2003 224 pages ISBN 3-8258-5842-1 Mar Gallego, Associate Professor of American Studies University of Huelva (Spain) Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance offers an insightful study of the significance of passing novels for the literary and intellectual debate of the Harlem…
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Seeing Black Women Anew through Lesbian Desire in Nella Larsen’s Passing Rocky Mountain Review Rocky Mountain Language Association Volume 60, Number 1 (Spring 2006) pages 25-52 H. Jordan Landry, Professor of English University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Beginning in the 1910s and 1920s, a series of novels advocate that African Americans commit themselves to “loving blackness,”…
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Invisible Darkness: Jean Toomer and Nella Larsen University of Iowa Press 1993 255 pages, 10 photos Paper 0-87745-437-X, 978-0-87745-437-3 Charles R. Larson, Professor of Literature American University Invisible Darkness offers a striking interpretation of the tortured lives of the two major novelists of the Harlem Renaissance: Jean Toomer, author of Cane (1923), and Nella Larsen,…
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Race Passing and American Individualism University of Massachusetts Press February 2003 176 pages Cloth ISBN: 1-55849-377-8 (Print on Demand) Kathleen Pfeiffer, Professor of English Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan A literary study of the ambiguities of racial identity in American culture In the literature of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, black characters who pass for…
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Mapping the liminal identities of mulattas in African, African American, and Caribbean literatures Pennsylvania State University December 2006 285 pages AAT: 3343682 ISBN: 9780549992738 Khadidiatou Gueye Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy December 2006 In twentieth-century African, African American, and Caribbean literatures, mixed-blood women are often misread…