Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Sui Sin Far
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This first full-length biography of the first published Asian North American fiction writer portrays both the woman and her times.
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Biracial/Bicultural Identity in the Writings of Sui Sin Far MELUS Volume 26, Number 2 (Summer 2001) pages 159-186 Vanessa Holford Diana, Professor of English Westfield State Unviversity, Westfield, Massachusetts At the turn into the twentieth century, American culture witnessed related literary and political shifts through which marginalized voices gained increased strength despite the severe racism…
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Situating the Essential Alien: Sui Sin Far’s Depiction of Chinese-White Marriage and the Exclusionary Logic of Citizenship MFS Modern Fiction Studies Volume 54, Number 4, Winter 2008 pages 654-688 E-ISSN: 1080-658X Print ISSN: 0026-7724 DOI: 10.1353/mfs.0.1561 Jane Hwang Degenhardt, Assistant Professor of English University of Massachusetts, Amherst This essay looks at how Sui Sin Far’s…
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Multiple choice: Literary racial formations of mixed race Americans of Asian descent Rice University May 2001 194 pages Shannon T. Leonard Rice University A thesis submitted in partial fulfullment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy This dissertation reassesses key paradigms of Asian American literary studies in the interest of critically accounting for…