Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
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Getting into Character: Racial Passing and the Limitations of Performativity and Performance in Britt Bennett’s The Vanishing Half Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction Published online 2021-11-22 DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2021.2007838 Ohad Reznick, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel Judith Butler’s notion of performativity has been criticized because of…
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In this paper, I argue that Danzy Senna’s “Caucasia “is a satirical passing narrative that exposes the tragedy of traditional passing novels as archaic for relying on racial binaries and perpetuating white desirability.
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This article examines James McBride’s National Book Award–winning novel The Good Lord Bird (2013) as an example of both posthistorical fiction and postracial passing.