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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Slippery Language and False Dilemmas: The Passing Novels of Child, Howells, and Harper American Literature Volume 75, Number 4, December 2003 pages 813-841 Julie Cary Nerad, Associate Professor of English Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Conceived in slavery, gestated in racialist science, and bred in Jim Crow segregation, the U.S. race system calcified into a…
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“Suddenly and Shockingly Black”: The Atavistic Child in Turn-into-the-Twentieth-Century American Fiction African American Review Volume 41, Number 1 (Spring, 2007) pages 51-66 J. Michael Duvall, Associate Professor of English College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina Julie Cary Nerad, Associate Professor of English Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland From at least the Civil War through the…