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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Tag: American Studies
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This essay argues that William Faulkner’s Light in August and Absalom, Absalom! use the device of the narrative enigma to effectively tell stories in which the cultural practice of ‘passing for white’ in the United States under the Jim Crow system is strongly suggested.
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On Race and Medicine: Insider Perspectives ed. by Richard Garcia (review) American Studies Volume 55, Number 1, 2016 pages 163-164 DOI: 10.1353/ams.2016.0057 David Colón-Cabrera ON RACE AND MEDICINE: Insider Perspectives. Edited by Richard Garcia. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 2015. The fields of anthropology and sociology, in addition to health sciences, have problematized the topic…
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Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture by Jennifer Ann Ho (review) American Studies Volume 55, Number 1, 2016 pages 165-166 DOI: 10.1353/ams.2016.006 Jeehyun Lim, Assistant Professor of English Denison University, Granville, Ohio Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture. By Jennifer Ann Ho. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2015. Jennifer Ho’s Racial Ambiguity in Asian…
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“As White as Most White Women”: Racial Passing in Advertisements for Runaway Slaves and the Origins of a Multivalent Term American Studies Volume 54, Number 4, 2016 pages 73-97 Martha J. Cutter, Professor of English and Africana Studies University of Connecticut In 1731 a man named Gideon Gibson, along with several of his relatives, emigrated…
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Postracial Mestizaje: Richard Rodriguez’s Racial Imagination in an America Where Everyone Is Beginning to Melt American Studies Volume 54, Number 1, 2015 pages 89-113 DOI: 10.1353/ams.2015.0007 Lee Bebout, Associate Professor of English Arizona State University And it seemed to me that the larger questions about America that the color raised is the fact that we…
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“Black No More”?: Walter White, Hydroquinone, and the “Negro Problem” American Studies Volume 47, Number 1 (Spring 2006) pages 5-30 Eric Porter, Professor of American Studies University of California, Santa Cruz In an August 1949 Look magazine article—”Has Science Conquered the Color Line?”—NAACP Executive Secretary Walter White pondered the social implications of monobenzyl ether of…
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The Racial Paradox of Tribal Citizenship American Studies Volume 46, Numbers 3 & 4 (Fall-Winter 2005) pages 163-185 Indigenous Studies Today Volume 1 (Fall 2005/Spring 2006) Steve Russell, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Indiana University As I begin to write this my tribal election season is at hand. As usual, all the candidates claim to be…
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“A blood mixture which experience has shown furnishes the very highest grade of citizen-material”: Selective Assimilation in a Polynesian Case of Naturalization to U.S. Citzenship American Studies (ISSN: ISSN 0026-3079) Volume 45, Number 3 (Fall 2004) pages 33-48 J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Associate Professor of American Studies and Anthropology Wesleyan University On the 11th of July,…