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: Brigitte N. Fielder
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Whatever else we might say about it, let’s not forget this: Rachel Dolezal’s story is a decidedly American one. Here, I refer not only to story of Dolezal’s racial passing, but also to how Dolezal’s story triggers and reveals America’s racial fascinations. Whatever Dolezal’s motives or ethics, our scrutiny of Dolezal’s race echoes a long…
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Visualizing Racial Mixture and Movement: Music, Notation, Illustration J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2015 pages 146-155 DOI: 10.1353/jnc.2015.0009 Brigitte Fielder, Assistant Professor of English University of Wisconsin, Madison The archive of nineteenth-century visual culture abounds with illustrations of racial difference reflect anxieties about racial mixture and movement. Race extends beyond…
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“Almost Eliza”: Genre, Racialization, and Reading Mary King as the Mixed-Race Heroine of William G. Allen’s The American Prejudice Against Color Studies in American Fiction Volume 40, Issue 1, Spring 2013 pages 1-25 Brigitte Nicole Fielder, Assistant Professor of English University of Wisconsin, Madison In 1853, Mary King, the white daughter of abolitionists, was engaged…