Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Philosophy of Race

    The Philosophy of Race Routledge 2011-12-14 1,584 pages Hardback: 978-0-415-49602-5 Edited by: Paul Taylor, Associate Professor of Philosophy; African American Studies Pennsylvania State University Since at least the early 1990s, philosophical race theory has emerged as a dynamic and fertile area of serious scholarly inquiry, and this new four-volume Major Work from Routledge meets the…

  • CLS 413: Comparative Studies in Theme: Generation, Degeneration, Miscegenation

    CLS 413: Comparative Studies in Theme: Generation, Degeneration, Miscegenation Northwestern University Winter 2012 César Braga-Pinto, Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies In this seminar we will discuss how and why late 19th-century and early 20th-century fiction often represented a crisis in models of biological reproduction. We will investigate how anxieties regarding miscegenation and degeneration impacted this…

  • Post-race? Nation, Inheritance and the Contradictory Performativity of Race in Barack Obama’s ‘A More Perfect Union’ Speech

    Post-race? Nation, Inheritance and the Contradictory Performativity of Race in Barack Obama’s ‘A More Perfect Union’ Speech thirdspace: a journal of feminist theory & culture Volume 10, Number 1 (2011) 18 pages Bridget Byrne, Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences University of Manchester This article takes the speech that Barack Obama made in his campaign for…

  • Retroactive phantasies: discourse, discipline, and the production of race

    Retroactive phantasies: discourse, discipline, and the production of race Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture Volume 14, Issue 3 (2008) Pages 333-347 DOI: 10.1080/13504630802088219 Nadine Ehlers, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies Georgetown University The present inquiry considers how the practice and notion of race can be figured as…

  • Racial Imperatives: Discipline, Performativity, & Struggles against Subjection

    Nadine Ehlers examines the constructions of blackness and whiteness cultivated in the U.S. imaginary and asks, how do individuals become racial subjects?

  • Passing and the Fictions of Identity

    These essays consider a wide range of texts and moments from colonial times to the present that raise significant questions about the political motivations inherent in the origins and maintenance of identity categories and boundaries.

  • Mixed-Race Identity Politics in Nella Larsen and Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna)

    Mixed-Race Identity Politics in Nella Larsen and Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna) Ohio University English (Arts and Sciences) Department November 2001 217 pages Advisor: David Dean McWilliams Sachi Nakachi A dissertation presented to the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences of Ohio University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of…