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: Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
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This article examines two paintings from the antebellum period, “The Slave Market” (ca. 1859) by an unidentified artist and “The Freedom Ring” (1860) by Eastman Johnson, which involve the purchase of nearly white slaves, and attempts to delineate the motivation for presenting these images before the public. These paintings functioned much as slave narratives, and…
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This article examines Henry Ossawa Tanner’s complex sense of his own racial identity. Tanner’s conflict was born of the fact that in his personal adult life he walked a fragile line between his whiteness and his blackness; in France, he systematically worked to remove race from the equation of his life. The author also identifies…
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Painting the World’s Christ: Tanner, Hybridity, and the Blood of the Holy Land Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide: a journal of ninetheenth-century visual culture Volume 3, Issue 2 (Autumn 2004) Alan C. Braddock, Assistant Professor of Art History Tyler School of Art, Temple University Henry Ossawa Tanner’s global vision of Christ circa 1900 projected an ideal of…
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Affirming Blackness: A Rebuttal to Will South’s “A Missing Question Mark: The Unknown Henry Ossawa Tanner” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide: a journal of ninetheenth-century visual culture Volume 9, Issue 2 (Autumn 2010) Naurice Frank Woods, Visiting Assistant Professor of African American Studies University of North Carolina, Greensboro George Dimock, Associate Professor of Art History University of…