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: Shani Mootoo
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Passing, Performance, and Perversity: Rewriting Bodies in the Works of Lawrence Hill, Shani Mootoo, and Danzy Senna 49th Parallel: An interdisciplinary journal of North American studies Issue 26: Autumn 2011 ISSN: 1753-5794 19 pages Natalie Wall University of Calgary This paper examines the function of passing in the works of Lawrence Hill, Shani Mootoo, and…
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Gender, Mixed Race Relations and Dougla Identities in Indo-Caribbean Women’s Fiction 6th International Conference of Caribbean Women’s Writing: Comparative Critical Conversations Goldsmiths, University of London Centre for Caribbean Studies 2011-06-24 through 2011-06-25 Christine Vogt-William Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany Once a pejorative term in Hindi meaning ‘bastard’, dougla is used nowadays to designate those…