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Passing as White: The Life Altering Effects on Loved Ones Southern Connecticut State University May 2006 122 pages Publication Number: AAT 1435422 ISBN: 9780542641824 Kathleen Daubney A Thesis Submitted to the School of Graduate Studies In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Master of Science This thesis analyzes the theme of passing…
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Stonequist’s Concept of “The Marginal Man” in Langston Hughes’ Play Mulatto International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature ISSN 2200-3592 (Print), ISSN 2200-3452 (Online) Volume 1, Number 4 (September 2012) pages 125-130 Farshid Nowrouzi Roshnavand University of Tehran, Iran Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh, Assistant Professor of Letters and Humanities Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran Born…
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Living Portraits: Carl Van Vechten’s Color Photographs of African Americans, 1939-1964 Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964), photographer, promotor of literary talent, and critic of dance, theater, and opera, had an artistic vision rooted in the centrality of the talented person. He cherished accomplishment, whether in…
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“Our America” That is Not One: Transnational Black Atlantic Disclosures in Nicolás Guillén and Langston Hughes Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture Volume 22, Number 3 (Fall 2000) pages 87-113 DOI: 10.1353/dis.2000.0007 Monika Kaup, Associate Professor of English University of Washington In the past two decades, discontent with the exclusions operative in…
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The Tragic Mulatto Theme in Six Works of Langston Hughes Phylon (1940-1956) Volume 16, Number 2 (2nd Qtr., 1955) pages 195-204 Arthur P. Davis (1904-1996) The Weary Blues (1925), the first publication of Langston Hughes, contained a provocative twelve-line poem entitled “Cross,” which dealt with the tragic mulatto theme. Two years later when Mr. Hughes brought…
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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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Accounting for the Audience in Historical Reconstruction: Martin Jones’s Production of Langston Hughes’s Mulatto Theatre Survey Number 36, Issue 1 (1995) pages 5-19 DOI: 10.1017/S0040557400006451 Jay Plum, Ph.D. Although Langston Hughes’s Mulatto holds the record as the second longest Broadway production of a play by an African American playwright (surpassed only by Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin…
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Liminality and Transgression in Langston Hughes’ “Mulatto” Cuadernos de investigación filológica (C.I.F.) Number 26 (2000) pages 263-271 ISSN: 0211-0547 Isabel Soto Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia This essay explores societal fear of the mulatto as charted by Langston Hughes’ play “Mulatto” (1931). “Mulatto” dramatizes the demand for social incorporation by a mixed-race young man,…
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Multiple Passings and the Double Death of Langston Hughes Biography Volume 23, Number 4 (Fall 2000) pages 670-693 E-ISSN: 1529-1456 Print ISSN: 0162-4962 DOI: 10.1353/bio.2000.0043 Juda Charles Bennett, Associate Professor of English The College of New Jersey Desire to us Was like a double death, Swift dying Of our mingled breath, Evaporation Of an unknown…