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: Jessie Fauset
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Adultery, incest, and questions of racial identity simmer beneath the tranquil surface of suburban life in this novel, set in a small New Jersey town of the early 1900s.
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This dissertation mines the intersection of racial performance and the history of the so-called “tragic mulatto” figure in American fiction. I propose that while many white writers depicted the “mulatto” character as inherently flawed because of some tainted “black blood,” many black writers’ depictions of mixed-race characters imagine solutions to the race problem.
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I will be analyzing these novels under the four themes of passing, acceptance, romance, and Paris/escape. I will also be mapping the characters in the novel on a QGIS system in order to indicate where the majority of the novel takes place and to see if certain characters have more movement than others.
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Jessie Fauset’s Plum Bun and the City’s Transformative Potential Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers Volume 30, Number 2, 2013 pages 265-286 DOI: 10.1353/leg.2013.0031 Catherine Rottenberg, Assistant Professor Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics and the Gender Studies Program Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel We are mainly indebted to writers of fiction for our more…
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Literature and Racial Ambiguity Rodopi 2002 320 pages 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches Hardback ISBN: 978-90-420-1428-2 / 90-420-1428-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-90-420-1418-3 / 90-420-1418-0 Edited by: Teresa Hubel, Associate Professor of English Huron University College in London, Ontario Neil Brooks, Associate Professor of English Huron University College at Western University, London, Ontario Contents Neil Brooks…
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Comedy: American Style Rutgers University Press October 2009 (Originally Published in 1933) 304 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4632-2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4631-5 Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) Edited and with an Introduction by: Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Professor of English University of Wisconsin, Madison Comedy: American Style, Jessie Redmon Fauset’s fourth and final novel, recounts the tragic tale of a…
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Passing as White: The Life Altering Effects on Loved Ones Southern Connecticut State University May 2006 122 pages Publication Number: AAT 1435422 ISBN: 9780542641824 Kathleen Daubney A Thesis Submitted to the School of Graduate Studies In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Master of Science This thesis analyzes the theme of passing…
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Beyond the Pale: Unsettling “Race” and Womanhood in the Novels of Harper, Hopkins, Fauset and Larsen
Beyond the Pale: Unsettling “Race” and Womanhood in the Novels of Harper, Hopkins, Fauset and Larsen McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada December 1996 303 pages Teresa Christine Zackodnik, Professor of English University of Alberta, Canada A thesis Submitted to the School of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor Of…