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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Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present Routledge: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures 2010-10-21 204 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-39808-4 Sarah Salih, Professor of English University of Toronto This study considers cultural representations of “brown” people in Jamaica and England alongside the determinations of race by statute from the…
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“A gallant heart to the empire.” Autoethnography and Imperial identity in Mary Seacole’s Wonderful Adventures Philological Quarterly Volume 83, Number 2, Spring, 2004 Sarah Salih, Professor of English University of Toronto A portrait of Mary Seacole in oils, c. 1869, by the obscure London artist Albert Charles Challen (1847–81). The original was discovered in 2003…
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The Silence of Miss Lambe: Sanditon and Fictions of ‘Race’ in the Abolition Era Eighteenth-Century Fiction Volume 18, Issue 3 (Spring 2006) pages 329-353 Sarah Salih, Professor of English University of Toronto Although it would be difficult to argue that Sanditon (1817) is “historical” in any immediately obvious sense, it is nonetheless clear that the…