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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The Tragic Immigrant: Duality, Hybridity and the Discovery of Blackness in Mark Twain and James Weldon Johnson ELH Volume 82, Number 1, Spring 2015 pages 211-249 DOI: 10.1353/elh.2015.0001 Richard Hardack Around the turn of the twentieth-century, a number of American writers imagined that European culture could help them develop an external perspective with which to…
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Miscegenetic Melville: Race and Reconstruction in Clarel Zach Hutchins, Assistant Professor of English Colorado State University ELH Volume 80, Number 4, Winter 2013 pages 1173-1203 DOI: 10.1353/elh.2013.0039 This essay investigates Herman Melville’s views on Reconstruction and racism in Clarel, the national epic published in the centennial year of 1876. In Clarel, Melville points toward miscegenation…