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: Jené Schoenfeld
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Explores how the trope of racial passing continues to serve as a touchstone for gauging public beliefs and anxieties about race in this multiracial era.
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ENGL 487: The Mulatto in American Fiction Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio Fall 2004 Jené Schoenfeld, Assistant Professor of English The mulatto balances precariously on the razor-thin edge of the color line between black and white. In the antebellum era, the mulatto’s proximity to whiteness made the mulatto an attractive object for Abolitionist sympathy. In the…
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Into the box and out of the picture: The rhetorical management of the mulatto in the Jim Crow era Duke University 2005 573 pages Publication Number: AAT 3250085 Jené Lee Schoenfeld Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English in the Graduate School…