Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Olivia Ward Bush-Banks and New Negro Indigeneity MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United StatesVolume 45, Issue 3, Fall 2020pages 104–128Published: 03 July 2020DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlaa033 DeLisa D. Hawkes, Assistant Professor of EnglishUniversity of Texas, El Paso Among New Negro Renaissance greats such as Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and Wallace Thurman, early…
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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…
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Feeling Cosmopolitan: Strategic Empathy in Charles W. Chesnutt’s Paul Marchand, F.M.C. MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States) Published online: 2016-12-10 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlw046 Alexa Weik von Mossner, Assistant Professor University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria “By modern research the unity of the human race has been proved,” asserts Charles W. Chesnutt in “The Future American” (122).…
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Charles W. Chesnutt’s Stenographic Realism MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 40, Number 4, Winter 2015 pages 48-68 Mark Sussman Hunter College, City University of New York Speaking before a meeting of the Ohio Stenographer’s Association on 28 August 1889, Charles W. Chesnutt declared: “The invention of phonography deserves to rank, and does rank,…
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Nella Larsen Reconsidered: The Trouble with Desire in Quicksand and Passing MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Volume 41, Number 1, Negotiating Trauma and Affect (Spring 2016) Published 2016-01-25 pages 165-192 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlv083 Rafael Walker, Assistant Professor of English Baruch College, City University of New York Winner of MLA’s 2016 Crompton-Noll Award for Best…
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Ghosts of Camptown MELUS: Multi-Ethnic LIterature of the United States Volume 39, Issue 3 (Fall 2014) pages 49-67 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlu025 Grace Kyungwon Hong, Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles This essay engages the deployment of form in Heinz Insu Fenkl’s Memories of My Ghost Brother (1996), focusing…
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Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial. Ralina L. Joseph. [Cannon] MELUS: Multi-Ethnic LIterature of the United States Volume 39, Issue 3 (Fall 2014) pages 207-209 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlu028 Sarita Cannon, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature San Francisco State University Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional…
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Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century. Colleen C. O’Brien. [Orihuela] MELUS: Multi-Ethnic LIterature of the United States Published Online: 2014-06-05 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlu027 Sharada Balachandran Orihuela, Assistant Professor of English University of Maryland Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century. Colleen C. O’Brien. Charlottesville: University…
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Imitation of Life, one of the classic narratives of racial passing, originated as a 1933 novel by Jewish writer Fannie Hurst, but it is perhaps best known as the 1959 melodrama directed by Douglas Sirk inducing finale of the Sirk film, the prodigal black daughter, who has crossed the color line and passed for white, returns home…
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The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930 [Joseph Review] MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Published online: 2014-01-26 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlt079 Ralina L. Joseph, Associate Professor of Communication University of Washington The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930. Jolie A. Sheffer. New Brunswick…