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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A Dissertation submitted to the Department of American Literature and Culture, School of English, Faculty of Philosophy of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.
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Passing, Performance, and Perversity: Rewriting Bodies in the Works of Lawrence Hill, Shani Mootoo, and Danzy Senna 49th Parallel: An interdisciplinary journal of North American studies Issue 26: Autumn 2011 ISSN: 1753-5794 19 pages Natalie Wall University of Calgary This paper examines the function of passing in the works of Lawrence Hill, Shani Mootoo, and…
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English 108: Crossing Racial Boundaries in Post-Civil Rights Fiction and Film: Interracial Encounters University of California, Los Angeles Winter 2012 Caroline Streeter, Associate Professor of English This course looks at literature and film depicting interracial sexuality and mixed race identities in the post-Civil Rights era. Course materials depict individuals and communities that trouble and challenge…
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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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In the Middle, In Between: Cultural Hybridity, Community Rejection, and the Destabilization of Race in Percival Everett’s “Erasure”, Adam Mansbach’s “Angry Black White Boy”, and Danzy Senna’s “Caucasia” Howard University 2011 84 pages Publication Number: AAT 1495397 ISBN: 9781124728568 Laura R. Perez A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Howard University…
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When Danzy Senna’s parents married in 1968, they seemed poised to defy history: two beautiful young American writers from wildly divergent backgrounds—a white woman with a blue-blood Bostonian lineage and a black man, the son of a struggling single mother and an unknown father.
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Pushing Boundaries, Mixed-Race Artists Gain Notice The New York Times 2011-07-05 Felicia R. Lee Heidi Durrow, left, and Fanshen Cox, the co-producers of the Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival. (Ann Johansson for The New York Times) Note from Steven F. Riley: Please make sure to view the many reader comments for the article here.…
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A Mixed Race Take On What It Means To Be ‘Free’ Tell Me More National Public Radio 2011-06-24 NPR Staff A lonely young New Yorker finds a puppy while jogging. A middle class couple tries navigating the treacherous waters of admission to a sought-after preschool. A new mother grows jealous of the chic and thin…
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This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of ‘passing’. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction.
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Shades of gray: Black-white multiracialism in contemporary American literature York University (Canada) 2011 294 pages Publication Number: AAT NR71345 ISBN: 9780494713457 Molly Littlewood McKibbin A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies in English in partial fulfillment of the requirments for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy The American construction of whiteness and blackness…