Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Nella Larsen
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Here, There, and In Between: Travel as Metaphor in Mixed Race Narratives of the Harlem Renaissance University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2014-05-09 Colin Enriquez English Department Created to comment on Antebellum and Reconstruction literature, the tragic mulatto concept is habitually applied to eras beyond the 19th century. The tragic mulatto has become an end rather than…
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The Penumbral Spaces of Nella Larsen’s Passing: Undecidable bodies, mobile identities, and the deconstruction of racial boundaries Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography Volume 13, Issue 3, 2006 pages 227-246 DOI: 10.1080/09663690600700972 Perry L. Carter, Assistant Professor of Human Geography Texas Tech University Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel, Passing, is a psychological drama…
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Reading Race in Nella Larsen’s Passing and the Rhinelander Case African American Review Voluume 46, Numbers 2-3, Summer/Fall 2013 pages 345-361 DOI: 10.1353/afa.2013.0076 Rebecca Nisetich, Assistant Director, Honors Program University of Southern Maine Toward the end of Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929), the protagonist Irene Redfield imagines how her friend Clare Kendry’s racist husband might react…
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English 4640G: Construction of Racial Identity in Post Civil War America Huron University College at Western University London, Ontario, Canada Winter 2013 Neil Brooks, Associate Professor, English Course Description: Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination argues that the canonical American literary tradition can only be understood after recognizing the presence…
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Deconstructing the Mixed-Race Experience of Passing California State University, San Marcos May 2006 172 pages Victoria Baldo Segall A Thesis Submitted for Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Literature and Writing Studies In “Beauty and the Beast: On Racial Ambiguity” Carla Bradshaw describes passing as an attempt to…
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“Makin a way Outta no way:” The dangerous business of racial masquerade in Nella Larsen’s Passing Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory Volume 15, Issue 1 (2005) pages 79-104 DOI: 10.1080/07407700508571489 Carlyle Van Thompson, Acting Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Education Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York Early in…
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“I Want to be Nothing”. Challenging Notions of Culture, Race and Identity Studia Humanistyczne AGH Volume 10, Issue 2 (2011) pages 75-83 Agata Lubowicka University of Gdansk, Poland This article tackles the issue of “hyphenated identities” in Heidi W. Durrow’s novel The Girl Who Fell from the Sky (2010), whose main topic is growing up…
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Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937 New York University Press October 2011 228 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780814752555 Paper ISBN: 9780814752562 Julia H. Lee, Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies University of Texas, Austin 2013 Honorable Mention, Asian American Studies Association’s prize in Literary Studies Why do black characters…