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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Crossing the Color Line: Racial Passing in American Literature Wesleyan University AMST 322 / ENGL 319 Fall 2015 Amy Cynthia Tang, Assistant Professor of English Narratives of racial passing having long captivated readers and critics alike for the way in which they provocatively raise questions about the construction, reinforcement, and subversion of racial categories. This…
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Trans-American Modernisms: Racial Passing, Travel Writing, and Cultural Fantasies of Latin America University of Southern California August 2009 311 pages Ruth Blandón Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ENGLISH) In my historical examination of the literary…
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Passing, segregation, and assimilation: How Nella Larsen changed the “Passing” novel University of Texas, El Paso December 2010 105 pages Publication Number: AAT 1483825 ISBN: 9781124390468 Vivian Maguire A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at El Paso in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree…
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James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex–Colored Man: A Century Later (Session 529) Modern Language Association 127th MLA Annual Convention 2012-01-05 through 2012-01-05 Washington State Convention Center Seattle, Washingon Program arranged by the Division on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature Presiding Gene Andrew Jarrett, Associate Professor of English Boston University Speakers 1. “Music, Race,…
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“To Be Suddenly White” explores the troubled relationship between literary passing and literary realism, the dominant aesthetic motivation behind the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century ethnic texts considered in this study.
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Life on the boundary: “Passing” and the limits of self-definition Rutgers University, Camden May 2011 46 pages Raven Marlenia Moses A thesis submitted to the Graduate School-Camden Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Graduate Program in English With the advent of…
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From exile to transcendence: racial mixture and the journey of revision in the works of Lydia Maria Child, Hannah Crafts, Kate Chopin, James Weldon Johnson, and Jean Toomer University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign May 2010 Suzanne M. Lynch My study, entitled From Exiles to Transcendences focuses on five authors: Lydia Maria Child, Hannah Crafts, Kate Chopin,…
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Mar Gallego. Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance: Identity, Politics and Textual Strategies [Review] African American Review Volume 38 (Winter 2004) pages 720-723 Mar Gallego. Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance: Identity, Politics and Textual Strategies. Hamburg: Lit Verlag Munster, 2003. 214 pp. Zhou Yupei Until very recently, novels of passing that appeared during the…
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Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance: Identity Politics and Textual Strategies Lit Verlag Munster 2003 224 pages ISBN 3-8258-5842-1 Mar Gallego, Associate Professor of American Studies University of Huelva (Spain) Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance offers an insightful study of the significance of passing novels for the literary and intellectual debate of the Harlem…