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: Frank J. Webb
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“Faithfully Drawn from Real Life”: Autobiographical Elements in Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Volume 137, Number 3 (July 2013) pages 261-300 DOI: 10.5215/pennmaghistbio.137.3.0261 Mary Maillard A resurgence of interest in Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends—the second novel by an African American and…
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“A Very Different Looking Class of People”: Racial Passing, Tragedy, and the Mulatto Citizen in American Literature University of Southern Mississippi 2013-02-18 81 pages Stephanie S. Rambo Honors Prospectus Submitted to the Honors College of The University of Southern Mississippi In Fulfillment Bachelors of Arts In the Department of English This project explores the mulatto…
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Family Money explores the histories of formerly enslaved women who tried to claim inheritances left to them by deceased owners, the household traumas of mixed-race slaves, post-Emancipation calls for reparations, and the economic fallout from anti-miscegenation marriage laws.
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Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel University of Illinois Press 2001 208 pages 6 x 9 in. Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07248-2 M. Giulia Fabi, Associate professor of American literature University of Ferrara, Italy Revealing the role of light-skinned black characters passing for white in African American literature A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2003…
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Over the river and through the woods: Miscegenation and the American experiment State University of New York at Buffalo 2007 214 pages Publication Number: AAT 3277744 ISBN: 9780549178705 Shelby Lucille Crosby This dissertation examines how early American authors utilized the concept of miscegenation as a way to alter the American experiment. By invoking and exploring…