Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Nella Larsen
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Doublings and Dissociation in Nella Larsen’s Passing and Helen Oyeyemi’s Boy, Snow, Bird Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities Volume 27, 2022 – Issue 3-4: after modernism: women, gender, race. issue editor: pelagia goulimari Pages 182-198 DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2022.2093974 Jean Wyatt, Professor of English; Emerita Occidental College, Los Angeles, California In this paper I explore the…
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LAWRENCE – While many literary critics have found Nella Larsen’s 1929 novella “Passing” to be frustratingly opaque, and others have concentrated on its themes of same-sex attraction and class consciousness, an essay by a University of Kansas professor of English finds that racial repression is the focus of the novel by analyzing it from a…
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In this essay, I propose that Larsen turns to Freudian theory to analyze the psychological dimension of racial repression. As Thadious Davis observes, Larsen was “very much aware of Freud, Jung, and their works” (329), and the cornerstone of Freud’s theory is repression. According to Freud, “the essence of repression lies simply in turning something…
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Though a means of escaping and undermining racial injustice, the practice comes with own set of costs and sacrifices.
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Roxborough represents one of the few documented historical instances from Michigan of a Black person choosing to live nearly full-time as a member of white society. This phenomenon, known as racial passing, has received renewed popular attention through recent artistic works like Rebecca Hall’s film adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel “Passing” and Britt Bennett’s…
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he key question posed herein is: What forms of privilege enable a reader to relinquish her attachment to paranoia, suspicion, and vigilance; to opt for openness rather than guardedness, submission rather than aggression (21)? Narratives of racial passing provide one answer to that question.
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Charles’s interweaving of the historical and the literary is a welcome addition to this growing field of passing studies.
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‘Passing’ keeps its writing simple, asking viewers to lean in for greater understanding The Los Angeles Times 2022-01-18 Rebecca Hall Adapting Nella Larsen’s slim novella took writer-director Rebecca Hall 13 years. “Ultimately, I did my best to build my script and my film, not so much out of language as out of small moments of…
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The complexities of the color line in the U.S. and Brazil