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  • “These narratives of racial passing have risen from the dead”

    “These narratives of racial passing have risen from the dead” Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey May 2015 275 pages DOI: 10.7282/T38G8NJG Donavan L. Ramon Ph.D. Dissertation Instead of concurring with most critics that racial passing literature reached its apex during the Harlem Renaissance, this project highlights its persistence, as evidenced in the texts…

  • 350:445 Revisiting Racial Passing in the 21st Century

    350:445 Revisiting Racial Passing in the 21st Century Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Summer 2013 This is a course on racial passing, which many people wrongly believe is an antiquated phenomenon. Passing has historically referred to light-skinned African Americans who use their phenotypes to pretend to be white and enjoy the privileges of…

  • Carnival, Convents, and the Cult of St. Rocque: Cultural Subterfuge in the Work of Alice Dunbar-Nelson

    Carnival, Convents, and the Cult of St. Rocque: Cultural Subterfuge in the Work of Alice Dunbar-Nelson Georgia State University 2012-08-09 57 pages Sibongile B. N. Lynch A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the College of Arts and Sciences Georgia State University 2012 In the…

  • The Stones of the Village

    The Stones of the Village The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson Current copyright holder unknown. Due diligence has been exercised by the National Humanities Center to identify the copyright holder. ca. 1900-1910 19 pages Alice Dunbar-Nelson Victor Grabért strode down the one, wide, tree-shaded street of the village, his heart throbbing with a bitterness and anger…

  • “The Force, the Fire and the Artistic Touch”of Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s “The Stones of the Village”

    “The Force, the Fire and the Artistic Touch”of Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s “The Stones of the Village” Journal of the Short Story in English Number 54, Spring 2010 Michael Tritt Department of English Marianopolis College, Montréal Ambiguous of race they stand, By one disowned, scorned of another, Not knowing where to stretch a hand, And cry, ‘My…

  • To the whites, all Africans who were not of pure blood were gens de couleur…

    To the whites, all Africans who were not of pure blood were gens de couleur [people of color]. Among themselves, however, there were jealous and fiercely-guarded distinctions: “griffes, briques, mulattoes, quadroons, octoroons, each term meaning one degree’s further transfiguration toward the Caucasian standard of physical perfection.”1 Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “People of Color in Lousiana: Part I,”…

  • People of Color in Lousiana: Part I

    The title of a possible discussion of the Negro in Louisiana presents difficulties, for there is no such word as Negro permissible in speaking of this State. The history of the State is filled with attempts to define, sometimes at the point of the sword, oftenest in civil or criminal courts, the meaning of the…

  • The Discourse of Interracial and Multicultural Identity in 19th and 20th Century American Literature

    The Discourse of Interracial and Multicultural Identity in 19th and 20th Century American Literature Indiana University of Pennsylvania May 2007 373 pages AAT 3257969 Dale M. Taylor A Dissertation Submitted to the School of Graduate Studies and Research In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy The narratives of and about…

  • Brass Ankles Speak

    Brass Ankles Speak Essays by Alice Dunbar-Nelson circa 1929 Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) Prefatory Note by Gloria T. Hull Entitled “Brass Ankles Speaks” (Vol. 2, WADN), it is an outspoken denunciation of darker skinned black people’s prejudice against light-skinned blacks told by a “brass ankles,” a black person “white enough to pass for white, but with…

  • The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson (Volume 1)

    The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson (Volume 1) Oxford University Press 1988 480 pages 4-5/8 x 6-1/2 Hardback ISBN13: 978-0-19-505250-3; ISBN10: 0-19-505250-1 Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) Edited by Gloria Hull Spanning the gamut of literary genres, from autobiographical short stories to poetry, journalism, and novelettes, this is a comprehensive collection of one of America’s most seminal women…