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: Christopher A. Varlack
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Extensive in its research, “A Chosen Exile” includes eighty-two pages of supplementary end notes and critical commentary that offer readers an in-depth perspective on the American racial landscape, the politics of passing (from a cultural and intra-personal lens), and the notion of loss so vital to a history still prevalent.
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this study examines the Afrofuturist sensibilities in these two key works of the Harlem Renaissance era and present day to understand how such authors not only counter the troubling histories of their time but also propose counter-futures that would otherwise have been buried beneath the cultural oppression of Jim Crow and other more modern forms…
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Allyson Hobbs, A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life [Varlack Review] 49th Parallel Issue 37 (2015-11-19) pages 66-68 ISSN: 1753-5894 Christopher Allen Varlack, Lecturer Department of English University of Maryland Allyson Hobbs, A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. 382 pp.…