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: Danzy Senna
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There is no stable ground to stand on in “Black No More.” Its irony and merciless satire steadfastly resist the anthropological gaze of the reader. It is a novel in whiteface. And while black literature is almost always read as either autobiography or sociology, Schuyler’s work can be read as neither.
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This dissertation focuses on how racial passing can be a critical strategy for defining and validating a nuanced conceptualization of blackness in twenty-first century African-American Literature.
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Biracial Identity Development in Danzy Senna’s Caucasia A chapter in Body Horror and Shapeshifting: A Multidisciplinary Exploration Brill 2014-01-04 pages: 145–152 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-84888-306-2 DOI: 10.1163/9781848883062_016 Jin-Yu Lin Biracial individuals frequently go through a search for identity, a struggle to choose an identity and finally to accept their inherent multiplicity. They identify with more than…
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“Historically, in the United States, if you had one drop of black blood, you were defined as black. You had various names for people who looked as white as their master, but they were defined as black. I didn’t grow up identifying as black because of that — for me it was more about pride,…
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American novelist Danzy Senna draws on her experience growing up in an interracial family in her edgy, prize-winning fiction. In her latest novel, “New People,” she writes with insight and subversive humour about what it means to be half-black and half-white.
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In “Shades of Gray” Molly Littlewood McKibbin offers a social and literary history of multiracialism in the twentieth-century United States.
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“Very early on, I learned to, I‘d say, “Ruin the dinner party,” and that became something. I think of that as my origins as a writer, actually, was that I learned very early on that I was going to disrupt, and that I was going… My presence was not going to always be comfortable. And…
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Author Danzy Senna’s heritage gives her a unique perspective on race in America.
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But even as we have blurred racial lines in ways scarcely imaginable when “The Souls of Black Folk” appeared in 1903, we still have our clear-cut demarcations. And in many ways, lines of color, alongside the complexities of what it means to pass as one thing or another, may be what best defines Danzy Senna’s…
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Beige Bubble Bodies: New People by Danzy Senna The Miami Rail 2017-10-31 Claudia Milian, Associate Professor of Spanish & Latin American Studies Duke University New People by Danzy Senna, Riverhead Books, 240 pp. Danzy Senna’s New People unfolds the creases of Maria and her fiancé, Khalil’s flat lives––exposing sharp, furrowed, details of their beige being…