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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Barriers between Us: Interracial Sex in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Indiana University Press 2004-10-12 160 pages 1 bibliog., 1 index, 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21733-2; ISBN: 0-253-21733-4 Cassandra Jackson, Professor of English The College of New Jersey This provocative book examines the representation of characters of mixed African and European descent in the works of…
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From Wikipedia: The Tragic mulatto is a stereotypical fictional character that appeared in American literature during the 19th and 20th centuries. The “tragic mulatto” is an archetypical mixed race person (a “mulatto”), who is assumed to be sad or even suicidal because he/she fails to completely fit in the “white world” or the “black world”. As…
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The Tragic Mulatta Plays the Tragic Muse Victorian Literature and Culture Volume 37, Issue 2 (June 2009) pages 501-522 DOI: 10.1017/S1060150309090317 Kimberly Snyder Manganellia, Assistant Professor of 19th-Century British and American Literature Clemson University Marie Lavington, the runaway octoroon slave in Charles Kingsley‘s little-read novel Two Years Ago (1857), makes this declaration of independence in…