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: Herman Melville
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Miscegenetic Melville: Race and Reconstruction in Clarel Zach Hutchins, Assistant Professor of English Colorado State University ELH Volume 80, Number 4, Winter 2013 pages 1173-1203 DOI: 10.1353/elh.2013.0039 This essay investigates Herman Melville’s views on Reconstruction and racism in Clarel, the national epic published in the centennial year of 1876. In Clarel, Melville points toward miscegenation…
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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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Black and White Both Cast Shadows: Unconventional Permutations of Racial Passing in African American and American Literature University of Arizona 2012 220 pages Derek Adams A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY In the Graduate College THE UNIVERSITY…
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Science of desire: Race and representations of the Haitian revolution in the Atlantic world, 1790-1865 University of Notre Dame July 2008 489 pages Publication Number: AAT 3436234 ISBN: 9781124353197 Marlene Leydy Daut, Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of…
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The idea of nature in “Benito Cereno.” Studies in Short Fiction Spring, 1993 Terry J. Martin Although many critics have analyzed specific natural images in Melville’s Benito Cereno, no one has yet focused exclusively on the role of nature in the novella, nor looked fully at its problematic relation to Delano. Such an examination can…
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Blood relations: The cultural work of miscegenation in nineteenth-century American literature University of Pennsylvania 1999, 282 pages Publication Number: AAT 9937719 ISBN: 9780599389762 Leigh Holladay Edwards, Associate Professor of English Florida State University A DISSERTATION in English Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree…