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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Jean Toomer’s Conflicted Racial Identity The Chronicle of Higher Education 2011-02-06 Rudolph P. Byrd, Goodrich C. White Professor of American Studies and African American Studies Emory University Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research Harvard University On August 4, 1922,…
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Scholars Say Chronicler of Black Life Passed for White New York Times 2010-12-26 Felicia R. Lee Renown came to Jean Toomer with his 1923 book “Cane,” which mingled fiction, drama and poetry in a formally audacious effort to portray the complexity of black lives. But the racially mixed Toomer’s confounding efforts to defy being stuck…
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These essays consider a wide range of texts and moments from colonial times to the present that raise significant questions about the political motivations inherent in the origins and maintenance of identity categories and boundaries.