Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Harriet Jacobs
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Within the context of America’s slave society, such relations as that described by the star — and the larger system of cohabitation and concubinage, or involuntary monogamous sexual relations, in which they existed — have been the subject of much study by historians.
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself Thayer and Eldridge 1861 Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897) Edited by Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) Read the entire book here or here.
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Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century University of Virginia Press October 2013 224 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 9780813934884 Paper ISBN: 9780813934891 Ebook ISBN: 9780813934907 Colleen C. O’Brien, Associate Professor of English University of South Carolina, Upstate As in many literatures of the New World grappling with issues…
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Keeping Pictures, Keeping House: Harriet and Louisa Jacobs, Fanny Fern, and the Unverifiable History of Seeing the Mulatta ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance Volume 59, Number 2, 2013 (No. 231 O.S.) pages 262-290 DOI: 10.1353/esq.2013.0022 Michael A. Chaney, Associate Professor of English Dartmouth College Daguerreotype of Louise Jacobs. From the Fanny Fern and…
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In “Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses,” Betsy Erkkilä argues that it is through the historical and psychological dramas of blood as a marker of violence, or race, or sex, or kinship that Americans have struggled over the meanings of democracy, citizenship, culture, national belonging, and the idea of America itself as it was constituted and…
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The Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave Narratives Beacon Press 2012-08-21 288 pages 6″ x 9″ Cloth ISBN: 978-080706912-7 Devon W. Carbado, Professor of Law and African American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Donald Weise, Independent Scholar in African American history The first book about the runaway slave phenomenon written by fugitive slaves themselves.…
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“Custodians of History”: (Re)Construction of Black Women as Historical and Literary Subjects in Afro-American and Afro-Cuban Women’s Writing University of Texas, Austin August 2005 500 pages Paula Sanmartín, Assistant Professor of (Afro) Caribbean and (Afro) Spanish American Literature California State University, Fresno Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of…
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Nation, miscegenation, and the myth of the mulatta/o monster 1859-1886 Universite de Montreal (Canada) 2009 261 pages Publication Number: AAT NR60321 ISBN: 9780494603215 Jessica Alexandra Maeve Murphy These presentee a la Faculte des etudes superieures En vue de l’obtention du grade de Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) en etudes anglaises “Nation, Miscegenation, and The Myth of the…
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Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative Indiana University Press 2007-12-04 272 pages 30 b&w photos, 6.125 x 9.25 ISBN-13: 978-0-253-34944-6 ISBN: 0-253-34944-3 Michael A. Chaney, Associate Professor of English Dartmouth College Analyzing the impact of black abolitionist iconography on early black literature and the formation of black identity, Fugitive Vision examines…