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  • “Miscegenation” Making Race in America

    In “Miscegenation,” Elise Lemire reads these literary and visual depictions for what they can tell us about the connection between the racialization of desire and the social construction of race.

  • New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States

    New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States Louisiana State University Press 1980 240 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2035-4 Joel Williamson, Lineberger Professor in the Humanities University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill New People is an insightful historical analysis of the miscegenation of American whites and blacks from colonial times to the present,…

  • Interracialism: Black-White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law

    Interracialism, or marriage between members of different races, has formed, torn apart, defined and divided our nation since its earliest history. This collection explores the primary texts of interracialism as a means of addressing core issues in our racial identity.

  • Injun Joe’s Ghost: The Indian Mixed-Blood in American Writing

    What does it mean to be a “mixed-blood,” and how has our understanding of this term changed over the last two centuries? What processes have shaped American thinking on racial blending?  Why has the figure of the mixed-blood, thought too offensive for polite conversation in the nineteenth century, become a major representative of twentieth-century native…

  • Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions: Gender, Culture, and Nation Building

    Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation of emerging nations in Latin America. Debra J. Rosenthal examines nineteenth-century authors in the United States and Spanish America who struggled to give voice to these contemporary dilemmas about interracial…

  • Mixing Race, Mixing Culture: Inter-American Literary Dialogues

    Mixing Race, Mixing Culture: Inter-American Literary Dialogues University of Texas Press 2002 6 x 9 in. 324 pp., 4 photos, 1 chart ISBN: 978-0-292-74348-9 Print-on-demand title Edited by Monika Kaup, Assistant Professor of English University of Washington, Seattle Debra Rosenthal, Assistant Professor of English John Carroll University Over the last five centuries, the story of…

  • Demystifying the Tragic Mulatta: The Biracial Woman as Spectacle

    Demystifying the Tragic Mulatta: The Biracial Woman as Spectacle Stanford Black Arts Quarterly Volume 2, Issue 3 (Summer/Spring 1997) pages 12-14 Stefanie Dunning, Associate Professor Miami University (of Ohio) To talk about the complexities of subjectivity is to enter into a discussion which necessarily locates itself at the intersection of race, clans, gender and sexuality.…

  • Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation: Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race

    Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation: Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race Princeton University Press 2004 376 pages 6 x 9, 142 halftones. Paperback ISBN: 9780691113050 Susan Courtney, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies University of South Carolina Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation analyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film.  From…

  • Raising Eurasia: Race, Class, and Age in French and British Colonies

    Raising Eurasia: Race, Class, and Age in French and British Colonies Comparative Studies in Society and History Volume 51, Issue 2 (April 2009) pages 314-343 DOI: 10.1017/S0010417509000140 David M. Pomfret, Associate Professor The University of Hong Kong Sexual relationships between European men and indigenous women produced racially mixed offspring in all of Europe’s empires. Recent…

  • MALUNGU: The African Origin of the American Melungeons

    MALUNGU: The African Origin of the American Melungeons Eclectica Magazine July/August 2001 Tim Hashaw Introduction They settled in Virginia one year before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. They sparked a major conflict between the Engllish Crown and American colonies one hundred and fifty years before the American Revolution. They lived free in the South…