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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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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Desdemona’s Fire – Review African American Review Volume 35, Number 2 (Summer 2001) pages 342-343 Lesley Wheeler, Henry S. Fox Professor of English Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia Ruth Ellen Kocher. Desdemona’s Fire. Detroit: Lotus P, 1999. 62 pp. This shapely first collection, 1999 winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award, rises with…
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“Suddenly and Shockingly Black”: The Atavistic Child in Turn-into-the-Twentieth-Century American Fiction African American Review Volume 41, Number 1 (Spring, 2007) pages 51-66 J. Michael Duvall, Associate Professor of English College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina Julie Cary Nerad, Associate Professor of English Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland From at least the Civil War through the…
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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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Symptomatic, Danzy Senna’s second novel, is a dense and disturbing satire of the post-1967 mixed-race movement. Tersely written, “hard-edged and kind of minimalist,” as Senna describes it in an interview with Rebecca Weber, it invokes the thrillers and film noir of Roman Polanski, Alfred Hitchcock, Brian DePalma, and Barbet Schroeder (Single White Female), to name…
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A Mixed Race: Ethnicity in Early America, edited by Frank Shuffelton (Oxford University Press, 1993) [Review] African American Review Volume 29, Number 1 (Spring 1995) pages 149-152 Raymond F. Dolle, Associate Professor of English Indiana State University A Mixed Race extends the recent work of ethnographic critics, such as James Clifford (The Predicament of Culture:…
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Traveling Identities: Mixed Race Quests and Fran Ross’s “Oreo” African American Review Volume 40, Number 1 (Spring 2006) Tru Leverette University of North Florida, Jacksonville The Frontier: Where Two Come Together Traveling to my grandmother’s funeral during my first marriage, my white husband and I walked down the narrow plane aisle toward our seats. In…
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Fluidity without Postmodernism: Michelle Cliff and the “Tragic Mulatta” Tradition African American Review Vol. 32, No. 4 (Winter, 1998) pages 673-689 Suzanne Bost, Associate Professor of English Loyola University I am writing the story of my life as a statue… I wish they had carved me from the onyx of Elizabeth Catlett. Or molded me…
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Fading to white, fading away: biracial bodies in Michelle Cliff’s Abeng and Danzy Senna’s Caucasia African American Review 2006-03-22 Michelle Goldberg However dissimilar individual bodies are, the compelling idea of common, racially indicative bodily characteristics offers a welcome short-cut into the favored forms of solidarity and connection, even if they are effectively denied by divergent…