Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Mark Twain
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This talk explores the phenomenon of ‘passing-for-white’ as represented in the work of transatlantic literary women ranging from Harlem Renaissance writer Nella Larsen to contemporary British writer Helen Oyeyemi and asks why passing continues to inspire women writers across the West.
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Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins Broadview Press 2016-05-04 (Originally Published in 1894) 304 pages 5½” x 8½” Paperback ISBN: 9781554812660 Mark Twain Edited by: Hsuan L. Hsu, Associate Professor of English University of California, Davis The two narratives published together in The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins are…
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Blood Work: Imagining Race in American Literature, 1890-1940 Louisiana State University Press January 2015 240 pages 5.50 x 8.50 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780807157848 Shawn Salvant, Assistant Professor of English and African American University of Connecticut The invocation of blood—as both an image and a concept—has long been critical in the formation of American racism. In…
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The Tragic Immigrant: Duality, Hybridity and the Discovery of Blackness in Mark Twain and James Weldon Johnson ELH Volume 82, Number 1, Spring 2015 pages 211-249 DOI: 10.1353/elh.2015.0001 Richard Hardack Around the turn of the twentieth-century, a number of American writers imagined that European culture could help them develop an external perspective with which to…
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Pudd’nhead Wilson Harvard University Press February 2015 (Originally Published in 1894) 190 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches 7 line illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9780674059832 Mark Twain (1835-1910) Introduction by: Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University When a murder takes place…
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English 4640G: Construction of Racial Identity in Post Civil War America Huron University College at Western University London, Ontario, Canada Winter 2013 Neil Brooks, Associate Professor, English Course Description: Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination argues that the canonical American literary tradition can only be understood after recognizing the presence…
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Crimes of passing: The criminalization of blackness and miscegenation in United States passing narratives University of California, Los Angeles 2005 158 pages Publication Number: AAT 3175169 ISBN: 9780542133046 Susan Elaine Bausch A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature Between approximately 1880 and 1925, large…
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English R1A: Keeping it Real?: Racial & Queer Passing in American Literature University of California, Berkeley Fall 2010 Rosa Martinez “I had a literature rather than a personality, a set of fictions about myself.” —Kafka Was the Rage by Anatole Broyard This course intends to explore the “art” of racial passing and masquerade in American…
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Exploring Prejudice, Miscegenation, and Slavery’s Consequences in Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson The Kennesaw Journal of Undergraduate Research Volume 1, Issue 1, Article 3 (2011) 5 pages Steven Watson Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia This research paper analyzes Mark Twain’s use of racist speech and racial stereotypes in his novel Pudd’nhead Wilson. Twain has often been…
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Mark Twain and Homer Plessy Representations Number 24, Special Issue: America Reconstructed, 1840-1940 (Autumn, 1988) pages 102-128 Eric J. Sundquist, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities Johns Hopkins University The carnivalesque drama of doubling, twinship, and masquerade that constitutes Pudd’nhead Wilson and its freakishly extracted yet intimately conjoined story, “Those Extraordinary Twins,” is likely…