Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Manchester University Press
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Making use of an array of sources, this book examines how early modern English people understood bodily difference. It demonstrates that individuals’ distinctive features were considered innate, even as discrete populations were believed to have characteristics in common, and challenges the idea that the humoral theory of bodily composition was incompatible with visceral inequality or…
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This book explores the Spanish elite’s fixation on social and racial ‘passing’ and ‘passers’, as represented in a wide range of texts. It examines literary and non-literary works produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that express the dominant Spaniards’ anxiety that socially mobile lowborns, Conversos (converted Jews), and Moriscos (converted Muslims) could impersonate and…
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Colouring the Caribbean offers the first comprehensive study of Agostino Brunias’s intriguing pictures of colonial West Indians of colour – so called ‘Red’ and ‘Black’ Caribs, dark-skinned Africans and Afro-Creoles, and people of mixed race – made for colonial officials and plantocratic elites during the late-eighteenth century.
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Emilio Fernández: Pictures in the Margins Manchester University Press October 2007 192 pages 216 x 138 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7190-7432-5 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7190-8844-5 Dolores Tierney, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom Emilio Fernández: Pictures in the Margins is the first book-length English language account of Emilio Fernández (1904-1986) the most…
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Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: Race, Nation and Beauty Competitions, 1929–70 Manchester University Press October 2013 192 pages 216 x 138 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7190-8867-4 Rochelle Rowe University of Exeter Over fifty years after Jamaican and Trinidadian independence, Imagining Caribbean Womanhood examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean, providing a first cultural history…
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This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of ‘passing’. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction.