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: Eric Sundquist
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Mark Twain and Homer Plessy Representations Number 24, Special Issue: America Reconstructed, 1840-1940 (Autumn, 1988) pages 102-128 Eric J. Sundquist, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities Johns Hopkins University The carnivalesque drama of doubling, twinship, and masquerade that constitutes Pudd’nhead Wilson and its freakishly extracted yet intimately conjoined story, “Those Extraordinary Twins,” is likely…
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Who’s Your Mama? “White” Mulatta Genealogies, Early Photography, and Anti-Passing Narratives of Slavery and Freedom American Literary History Volume 14, Number 3 (Fall 2002) DOI: 10.1093/alh/14.3.505 pages 505-359 P. Gabrielle Foreman, Professor of English and American Studies Occidental College Partus sequitur ventrem. The child follows the condition of the mother. US slave law and custom…