Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Robert Skinner
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Marginal Man and Hard-Boiled Detective: Racial Passing in Robert Skinner’s Wesley Farrell Series Clues: A Journal of Detection Volume 26, Number 3 (Spring 2008) pages 56-69 DOI: 10.3172/CLU.26.3.56 Sinéad Moynihan, Lecturer in English University of Exeter The author argues that tropes of detection and racial passing are mutually compatible in Robert Skinner’s six New Orleans-set…