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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Talking the Talk: Linguistic Passing in Danzy Senna’s Caucasia MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 42, Number 2, Summer 2017 pages 156-176 Melissa Dennihy, Assistant Professor of English Queensborough Community College, City University of New York, Bayside, New York Danzy Senna’s 1998 novel Caucasia, set in 1970s New England, follows the breakup of the…