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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Beige Bubble Bodies: New People by Danzy Senna The Miami Rail 2017-10-31 Claudia Milian, Associate Professor of Spanish & Latin American Studies Duke University New People by Danzy Senna, Riverhead Books, 240 pp. Danzy Senna’s New People unfolds the creases of Maria and her fiancé, Khalil’s flat lives––exposing sharp, furrowed, details of their beige being…
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More than a coming of age story, Danzy Senna’s first novel, “Caucasia” (Riverhead Books, 1998) addresses themes of coming into consciousness within the U.S. ethnoracial landscape. Clearly in dialogue with Nella Larsen’s “Passing” as well as Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” “Caucasia” is a first person narrative where anything that happens to the protagonist, Birdie Lee,…
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ROMST 200.01: Critical Approaches to Mestizaje Duke University Spring 2012 Claudia Milian, Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Romance Studies; African & African American Studies This seminar will examine critical theories of mestizaje, miscegenation, mixed race, and hybridity as articulated in Latino, Latin American, and African-American projects of racial identification and classification. In particular, the…