Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: American Quarterly
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The Flesh of Amalgamation: Reconsidering the Position (and the Labors) of Blackness American Quarterly Volume 65, Number 2, June 2013 pages 437-446 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2013.0021 Tryon P. Woods, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Crime & Justice Studies University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance and the Ruses of Memory. By Tavia Nyong’o. Minneapolis:…
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The Octoroon and English Opinions of Slavery American Quarterly Volume 8, Number 2 (Summer, 1956) pages 166-170 Nils Erik Enkvist Akademi Abo, Finland After his great successes, and notably that of Colleen Bawn, Dion Boucicault became something of a leading figure among English-speaking playwrights, while the critics as well as the public eagerly watched his…
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Fixing the Color Line: The Mulatto, Southern Courts, and Racial Identity American Quarterly Volume 53, Number 3 (September 2001) pages 420-451 E-ISSN: 1080-6490 Print ISSN: 0003-0678 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2001.0033 Teresa Zackodnik, Professor of English University of Alberta, Canada In July 1857 Abby Guy sued for her freedom and that of her four children in an Arkansas…