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: Monique Rooney
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“Recoil” or “Seize”?: Passing, Ekphrasis and “Exact Expression” in Nella Larsen’s Passing Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing and Culture Volume 3, Number 2, Fall 2001 Monique Rooney, Lecturer and Honours Convenor College of Arts and Social Sciences Austrailian National University Part One: Deep Nothing Mona Lisa’s famous smile is a thin mouth receding into…
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Grave endings: the representation of passing Austrailian Humanities Review Issue 23 (September 2001) Monique Rooney, Lecturer and Honours Convenor College of Arts and Social Sciences Austrailian National University At the 2000 Academy Awards, Hilary Swank won the award of “Best Actress” for her role as Teena Brandon/Brandon Teena in Kimberley Peirce’s Boys Don’t Cry (2000).…