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: Modernism/modernity
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To be sure, there are other dimensions of this adaptation that deserve discussion—for example, the downplaying of Clare’s abusive childhood, which renders her passing a little more mercenary than it is in the novel—but I’ve already gone on too long. As is by now clear, I have my misgivings about [Rebecca] Hall’s recent film, but,…
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Director Rebecca Hall’s recent adaptation of Nella Larsen’s exquisite second novel, Passing (1929), is visually stunning. I had the pleasure of seeing the film on the big screen, during its limited theatrical run and before its Netflix release.
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Bottles, Bubbles, and Blood: Jean Toomer and the Limits of Racial Epidermalism Modernism/modernity Volume 22, Number 2, April 2015 pages 279-302 DOI: 10.1353/mod.2015.0041 Catherine Keyser, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature University of South Carolina In an unpublished 1935 memoir, Jean Toomer reminisces about his job as a soda jerk in high school and…