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: Juda Bennett
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Toni Morrison and the Burden of the Passing Narrative African American Review Volume 35, Number 2 (Summer, 2001) pages 205-217 Juda Bennett, Associate Professor of English The College of New Jersey Passing for white, a phenomenon that once captivated writers as diverse as Charles Chesnutt, Sinclair Lewis, Nella Larsen, and Mark Twain, no longer seems…
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In exploring the social and cultural history of this distinctly American phenomenon, Bennett moves freely between literature, film, and music, arguing that the passing figure is crucial to our understanding of past and present conceptions of race.
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Multiple Passings and the Double Death of Langston Hughes Biography Volume 23, Number 4 (Fall 2000) pages 670-693 E-ISSN: 1529-1456 Print ISSN: 0162-4962 DOI: 10.1353/bio.2000.0043 Juda Charles Bennett, Associate Professor of English The College of New Jersey Desire to us Was like a double death, Swift dying Of our mingled breath, Evaporation Of an unknown…