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: Journal of Narrative Theory
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My work offers an analysis of this punishment and (occasional) reward system through a study of the way in which acts of racial passing are used in the service of moving the white female protagonist toward either her ultimate narrative chastisement (in the novel) or her redemption (in the film), demonstrating that passing relies on…
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“Maneuvers of Silence and the Task of ‘New Negro’ Womanhood” Journal of Narrative Theory Volume 42, Number 1, Spring 2012 pages 46-68 DOI: 10.1353/jnt.2012.0006 Emily M. Hinnov, Assistant Dean of Curriculum & Lecturer of English Granite State College, Concord, New Hampshire Yes, she has arrived. Like her white sister, she is the product of profound…
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Narrative Miscegenation: “Absalom, Absalom!” as Naturalist Novel, Auto/Biography, and African-American Oral Story Journal of Narrative Theory Volume 31, Number 2 (Summer, 2001) pages 155-179 DOI: 10.1353/jnt.2011.0080 Alex Vernon, Associate Professor of English Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas Charles Darwin’s evolutionary ideas, especially as disseminated by Herbert Spencer, profoundly affected literary criticism at the end of the…