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: Frances E. W. Harper
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Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel University of Illinois Press 2001 208 pages 6 x 9 in. Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07248-2 M. Giulia Fabi, Associate professor of American literature University of Ferrara, Italy Revealing the role of light-skinned black characters passing for white in African American literature A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2003…
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Impurely Raced // Purely Erased: Toward a Rhetorical Theory of (Bi)Racial Passing University of Southern California May 2009 348 pages Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMMUNICATION) This dissertation…
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Iola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted 1893 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Project Gutenberg EBook 2004-05-14 #12352 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) Read the entire book here.
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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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Barriers between Us: Interracial Sex in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Indiana University Press 2004-10-12 160 pages 1 bibliog., 1 index, 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21733-2; ISBN: 0-253-21733-4 Cassandra Jackson, Professor of English The College of New Jersey This provocative book examines the representation of characters of mixed African and European descent in the works of…