Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Detecting Winnifred Eaton MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Published online: 2014-01-16 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlt078 Jinny Huh, Assistant Professor of English University of Vermont In her recent introduction to Winnifred Eaton’s Marion: The Story of an Artist’s Model (1916), Karen E. H. Skinazi explores the relationship between racial ambiguity—that of both the anonymous author and…
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Chesnutt’s Genuine Blacks and Future Americans MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Volume 15, Number 3, Discovery: Research and Interpretation (Autumn, 1988) pages 109-119 SallyAnn H. Ferguson, Professor of English University of North Carolina, Greensboro Scholarship on novelist and short story writer Charles W. Chesnutt stagnates in recent years because his critics have failed to…
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Witnessing Charles Chesnutt: The Contexts of “The Dumb Witness” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Volume 38, Issue 4 (December 2013) pages 103-121 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlt045 Benjamin S. Lawson Florida State University The silence and silencing of the character Viney in Charles Chesnutt’s short story, “The Dumb Witness” (c. 1897), artfully addresses the issue of…
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Americans of multiracial descent recently have become noticeable, respectable, marketable, and, in the case of Barack Obama, presidential. In the last two decades, a growing body of creative and critical work about multiracial lives and issues has materialized. This social and historical development has become an ideological battleground for advocates, politicians, scholars, journalists, and marketers…
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Caballeros and Indians: Mexican American Whiteness, Hegemonic Mestizaje, and Ambivalent Indigeneity in Proto-Chicana/o Autobiographical Discourse, 1858–2008 MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Volume 38, Issue 1 (March 2013) pages 30-49 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mls010 B. V. Olguín, Associate Professor of English University of Texas, San Antonio In the spirit of a new people that is conscious…
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Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction [Fruscione review] MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Volume 38, Issue 3 (September 2013) pages 180-182 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlt040 Joseph Fruscione, Adjunct Professor of Writing George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction. Diana Rebekkah Paulin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota…
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“A Universe of Many Worlds”: An Interview with Ruth Ozeki MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Volume 38, Issue 3 (September 2013) pages 160-171 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlt028 Eleanor Ty, Professor of English and Film Studies Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada That’s what it felt like when I was growing up, like I was a…
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Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896–1937 (review) [Sheffer] MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 37, Number 4, Winter 2012 DOI: 10.1353/mel.2012.0061 pages 203-205 Jolie A. Sheffer, Associate Professor, English and American Culture Studies Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio Julia H. Lee’s Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and…
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Cross-Cultural Affinities between Native American and White Women in “The Alaska Widow” by Edith Eaton (Sui Sin Far) MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Volume 38, Number 1 (Spring 2013) pages 155-163 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mls002 Mary Chapman, Associate Professor of English University of British Columbia When her work was recovered in the 1980s, Edith Eaton…
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Staged Bodies: Passing, Performance, and Masquerade in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 37, Number 4, Winter 2012 pages 69-91 DOI: 10.1353/mel.2012.0062 Margaret Toth, Assistant Professor of English Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York Henry Louis Gates, Jr., claims that “one of the ironies” of the New…