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: John Stedman
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In Search of Something Akin to Freedom: Black Women, Slavery, and Power Florida State University 2007 78 pages Katrina Songanett Smith A Thesis submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts This thesis examines both historical and fictional representations of interracial relationships in…
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Going Viral: Stedman’s Narrative, Textual Variation, and Life in Atlantic Studies Romantic Circles Praxis Series Circulations: Romanticism and the Black Atlantic October 2011 47 paragraphs Dustin Kennedy English Department The Pennsylvania State University The current multiplex configuration of Stedman’s Narrative emerged in 1988, the result of Richard and Sally Price’s new scholarly edition. The Prices’…
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Why can a “white” woman give birth to a “black” baby, while a “black” woman can never give birth to a “white” baby in the United States? What makes racial “passing” so different from social mobility? Why are interracial and incestuous relations often confused or conflated in literature, making “miscegenation” appear as if it were…