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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Her Mammy’s Daughter: Symbolic Matricide and Racial Constructions of Motherhood in Charles W. Chesnutt’s “Her Virginia Mammy” 49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies Issue 16: Autumn 2005 ISSN: 1753-5794 Laura Dawkins, Professor of English Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky The black mother in slavery and beyond has inspired a growing body of…