Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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: Melissa A. Rauterkus
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Racial Fictions and the Cultural Work of Genre in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars
Racial Fictions and the Cultural Work of Genre in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars American Literary Realism Volume 48, Number 2, Winter 2016 pages 128-146 Melissa Asher Rauterkus, Assistant Professor of English University of Alabama, Birmingham I intend to record my impressions of men and things, and such incidents or conversations which…
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The Limits of Literary Realism: Of One Blood’s Post-Racial Fantasy by Pauline Hopkins Callaloo Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2013 pages 158-177 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2013.0049 Melissa Asher Daniels, Assistant Professor of English University of Alabama, Birmingham Fiction is of great value to any people as a preserver of manners and customs—religious, political and social. It is…