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: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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On Reading Dialect in Harper’s ‘Iola Leroy’ The Dickens Project2021-12-08 A roundtable conversation with Brigitte Fielder (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Eric Gardner (Saginaw Valley State University), Jennifer James (George Washington University), Derrick R. Spires (Cornell University), and Richard Yarborough (University of California, Los Angeles). We staged this conversation with expert scholars in nineteenth-century African American…
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Frances Harper’s fourth novel follows the life of the beautiful, light-skinned Iola Leroy to tell the story of black families in slavery, during the Civil War, and after Emancipation.
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Tackling fraught but fascinating issues of cultural borrowing and appropriation, this groundbreaking book reveals that Victorian literature was put to use in African American literature and print culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in much more intricate, sustained, and imaginative ways than previously suspected. From reprinting and reframing “The Charge of the Light…
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Slippery Language and False Dilemmas: The Passing Novels of Child, Howells, and Harper American Literature Volume 75, Number 4, December 2003 pages 813-841 Julie Cary Nerad, Associate Professor of English Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Conceived in slavery, gestated in racialist science, and bred in Jim Crow segregation, the U.S. race system calcified into a…
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Iola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted 1893 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Project Gutenberg EBook 2004-05-14 #12352 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) Read the entire book here.
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The White Blackbird: Miscegenation, Genre, and the Tragic Mulatta in Howells, Harper, and the “Babes of Romance” Nineteenth-Century Literature Volume 56, Number 4 (March 2002) Pages 495–517 DOI 10.1525/ncl.2002.56.4.495 Debra J. Rosenthal, Associate Professor of English John Carroll University In this essay I construct a literary genealogy that situates William Dean Howells in the middle…