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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“Home is Nowehere”: Negotiating Identities in Colonized Worlds University of Georgia 2007 57 pages Julia A. Tigner A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The University of Georgia in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS The Bildungsroman, a term that derived from German literary criticism, is a genre of…
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The Complexities of Identity: Teaching Michelle Cliff’s Abeng to High School Students Minnesota English Journal Volume 45 – Fall 2009 pages 19-33 Angie Iserman, English Teacher Owatonna High School, Owatonna, Minnesota When I decided to return to the role of student in order to obtain my graduate degree, my hope was I could bury myself within…
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Abeng Penguin Press 1984 176 pages 5.35 x 8.07in ISBN 9780452274839 Michelle Cliff Ever since Abeng was first published in 1984, Michelle Cliff has steadily become a literary force. Her novels evoke both the clearly delineated hierarchies of colonial Jamaica and the subtleties of present-day island life. Nowhere is her power felt more than in…
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Empire’s progeny: The representation of mixed race characters in twentieth century South African and Caribbean literature 2006-01-01 355 pages Publication Number: AAT 3249543 Kathleen A. Koljian University of Connecticut A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, 2006. This dissertation is an…
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Fluidity without Postmodernism: Michelle Cliff and the “Tragic Mulatta” Tradition African American Review Vol. 32, No. 4 (Winter, 1998) pages 673-689 Suzanne Bost, Associate Professor of English Loyola University I am writing the story of my life as a statue… I wish they had carved me from the onyx of Elizabeth Catlett. Or molded me…
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Fading to white, fading away: biracial bodies in Michelle Cliff’s Abeng and Danzy Senna’s Caucasia African American Review 2006-03-22 Michelle Goldberg However dissimilar individual bodies are, the compelling idea of common, racially indicative bodily characteristics offers a welcome short-cut into the favored forms of solidarity and connection, even if they are effectively denied by divergent…