Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Catherine Johnson, in her recent novel for the young adult audience, The Curious Tale of the Lady Caraboo, clearly does know what it is like to be a woman, and she shows in her eponymous character a vulnerable, poor, mixed race girl in Britain’s early 19th century who rises above the situation in which she…
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This week, Britain’s ITV showed a programme on Mary Seacole entitled “In the Shadow of Mary Seacole.” In some ways, the programme could have been titled, “Mary Seacole in the Shadow of British Racism.” Many people who initially celebrated the fact that ITV was telling the story of the woman labeled “The Greatest Black Briton”…
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More than that, The Sneetches taps into one of the fears that segregationists held, and which was represented as an ever-present danger in the Northern as well as the Southern states: the fear of “passing.” In a country where “one drop of African blood” made a person black and not white, worries about being able…
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Mixed Messages: The Role of the Multiracial Character in Children’s Literature theracetoread: Children’s Literature and Issues of Race 2015-08-20 Karen Sands-O’Connor, Professor English Department Buffalo State, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York In 19th and early 20th century children’s literature, the multiracial character generally evoked one of two responses: fear, or pity.…
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Why Are People Different?: Multiracial Families in Picture Books and the Dialogue of Difference The Lion and the Unicorn Volume 25, Number 3 September 2001 pp. 412-426 E-ISSN: 1080-6563 Print ISSN: 0147-2593 DOI: 10.1353/uni.2001.0037 Karen Sands-O’Connor The issue of race has often been contentious in children’s literature, from controversies over Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,…
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Why Are People Different?: Multiracial Families in Picture Books and the Dialogue of Difference The Lion and the Unicorn Volume 25, Number 3, September 2001 pages 412-426 E-ISSN: 1080-6563 Print ISSN: 0147-2593 DOI: 10.1353/uni.2001.0037 Karen Sands-O’Connor The issue of race has often been contentious in children’s literature, from controversies over Twain‘s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,…