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: Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
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While the name Archibald Motley brings instant recognition only to specialized scholars, two of Motley’s paintings are so well known that they have become, for many, visual embodiments of the Harlem Renaissance. Motley’s “The Octoroon Girl” (1925) and “Blues” (1929) have served as cover art for several editions of Harlem Renaissance literature, anthologies, and literary…
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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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Comedy: American Style Rutgers University Press October 2009 (Originally Published in 1933) 304 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4632-2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4631-5 Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) Edited and with an Introduction by: Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Professor of English University of Wisconsin, Madison Comedy: American Style, Jessie Redmon Fauset’s fourth and final novel, recounts the tragic tale of a…
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Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. For some writers, artists, and filmmakers, these images provided an alternative to the stereotypes of black womanhood and a challenge to the color line. For others, they represented key aspects of modernity and race coding central to…
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Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance (review) Legacy Volume 26, Number 1 (2009) pages 182-184 E-ISSN: 1534-0643 Print ISSN: 0748-4321 DOI: 10.1353/leg.0.0069 Martha Jane Nadell, Associate Professor Brooklyn College of the City University of New York Cherene Sherrard-Johnson opens her provocative and intriguing book, Portraits of the…