Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Journal of American Studies
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The pervasive media and public interest in the Dolezal story confirms the ongoing fascination with racial passing within and beyond the United States, a popular interest that has its counterpart in the proliferation of academic studies of the subject that have been published in the past twenty years. The scholarly attention paid to racial passing…
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Not many private relationships in history have received as much press attention in recent years as that between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings. First alleged in 1802 by the journalist James Callender, who based his account on stories that had been current in Virginia for some years, the affair has since then been…
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“SAMO© as an Escape Clause”: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Engagement with a Commodified American Africanism Journal of American Studies Volume 45, Issue 2 (May 2011) DOI: 10.1017/S0021875810001738 Laurie A. Rodrigues Department of English University of Rhode Island Heir to the racist configuration of the American art exchange and the delimiting appraisals of blackness in the American mainstream…
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Thomas Satterwhite Noble’s Mulattos: From Barefoot Madonna to Maggie the Ripper Journal of American Studies Volume 41, Issue 1 (April 2007) pages 83-114 DOI: 10.1017/S0021875806002763 Jo-Ann Morgan, Associate Professor of Art History and African American Studies Western Illinois University With emancipation a fait accompli by 1865, one might ask why Kentucky-born Thomas Satterwhite Noble (1835–1907), former Confederate…