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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Passing Fancies: Color, much more than race, dominated the fiction of the Harlem Renaissance The Wall Street Journal 2011-09-03 James Campbell Harlem Renaissance Novels, Edited by Rafia Zafar, Library of America, 1,715 pages Harlem in the autumn of 1924 offered a “foretaste of paradise,” according to the novelist Arna Bontemps. He was recalling the dawn…
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Trans-American Modernisms: Racial Passing, Travel Writing, and Cultural Fantasies of Latin America University of Southern California August 2009 311 pages Ruth Blandón 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 (ENGLISH) In my historical examination of the literary…
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Visually white, legally black: Miscegenation, the mulatto, and passing in American literature and culture, 1865–1933 Illinois State University 2004 193 pages Publication Number: AAT 3128271 Karen A. Chachere Many historians and literary scholars characterize the period between 1865-1933 as America’s preoccupation with the “Negro Question.” Admittedly, America was intrigued by the idea of the former…
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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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Written in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance by one of the movement’s most important and prolific authors, “Plum Bun” is the story of Angela Murray, a young black girl who discovers she can pass for white. After the death of her parents, Angela moves to New York to escape the racism she…