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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Tag: McKendree University Scholars Journal
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Identity Crisis for the Creole Woman: A Search for Self in Wide Sargasso Sea McKendree University Scholars Journal Lebanon, Illinois Issue 10, Winter 2008 Stephanie Coartney “‘And how will you like that’ I thought, as I kissed him. ‘How will you like being made exactly like other people?’” (Rhys 22). In this excerpt from Jean…
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Unwed Mothers, Race, and Transgression in William Faulkner’s Novels McKendree University Scholars Journal Lebanon, Illinois Issue 24, Winter 2015 16 pages Mindy Allen As a modernist writer, William Faulkner is conflicted with the autonomy he can allow for his female characters, particularly unmarried mothers. Ideology about women during the early twentieth century, including the debates…