Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: George Hutchinson
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For Toomer, however, this close identification with black folk culture, and the Negro in general, was inimical to his own self-conception. He largely attempted to evade conventional modes of racial identification. As he pursued a career as a writer, the young artist began to articulate an idiosyncratic and highly individualistic notion of race wherein he…
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Jean Toomer’s “Cane” was greeted in 1923 by influential critics as the brilliant beginning of a literary career. Many stressed the “authenticity” of Toomer’s African Americans and the lyrical voice with which he conjured them into being. His treatment of black characters contrasted starkly with both the stereotypes of earlier work by (mostly) white authors…
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A Breezy Chameleon, Blurring Social Borders The New York Times 2014-02-16 Jennifer Schuessler, Staff Editor When the literary scholar George Hutchinson was in the archives at Howard University one afternoon a decade ago, he thought he knew which story of a neglected African-American woman writer he was chasing. He was at work on a biography…
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American Cocktail: A “Colored Girl” in the World Harvard University Press 2014-02-17 352 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches 20 halftones Hardcover ISBN 9780674073050 Anita Reynolds (1901-1980), actress, dancer, model, and psychologist with Howard Miller, Professor of Education and Chair in the Department of Secondary Education Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York Edited by: George Hutchinson,…
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Jean Toomer and American Racial Discourse Texas Studies in Literature and Language Volume 35, Number 2, Anxieties of Identity in American Writing (Summer 1993) pages 226-250 George Hutchinson, Booth Tarkington Professor of Literary Studies; Adjunct Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies; Adjunct Professor of American Studies Indiana University, Bloomington The culture which will…
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The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White Harvard University Press January 1996 560 pages 6-3/8 x 9-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780674372627 George Hutchinson, Booth Tarkington Professor of Literary Studies; Adjunct Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies; Adjunct Professor of American Studies Indiana University, Bloomington It wasn’t all black or white. It wasn’t a…
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Nella Larsen and the Veil of Race American Literary History Volume 9, Number 2 (Summer, 1997) pages 329-349 George Hutchinson People see what they want to see, and then they’ll claim you. Not claim you, but label you. Because it’s not really about claiming you. The white people don’t want you around. You’re not really…
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Born to a Danish seamstress and a black West Indian cook in one of the Western Hemisphere’s most infamous vice districts, Nella Larsen (1891-1964) lived her life in the shadows of America’s racial divide. She wrote about that life, was briefly celebrated in her time, then was lost to later generations–only to be rediscovered and…