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: Sinéad Moynihan
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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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The pervasive media and public interest in the Dolezal story confirms the ongoing fascination with racial passing within and beyond the United States, a popular interest that has its counterpart in the proliferation of academic studies of the subject that have been published in the past twenty years. The scholarly attention paid to racial passing…
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The objective of this volume is twofold: it aims at shedding light on the way texts or films show the work of individual memory and collective recollection as they grapple with a racially divided past, struggling with its legacy or playing with its stereotypes. Our second objective has been to explore the great variety in…
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Outlining arguments that have emphasised both the reactionary and radical potential of the practices of genealogy and the search for roots, the article focuses on recent developments in the Rose of Tralee contest, an annual beauty pageant in which women of Irish descent compete for the title “Rose of Tralee”.
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Beautiful White Girlhood?: Daisy Buchanan in Nella Larsen’s Passing African American Review Volume 47, Number 1, Spring 2014 pages 37-49 Sinéad Moynihan, Lecturer in English University of Exeter This article expands recent scholarship on race in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and intertextuality in Nella Larsen’s Passing by arguing that the latter is a…
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“Watch me go invisible”: Representing Racial Passing in Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece’s Incognegro South Central Review Volume 32, Number 3, Fall 2015 pages 45-69 Sinéad Moynihan, Senior Lecturer University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom This essay examines the potential of the graphic novel as a vehicle to explore one of the most enduring…
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‘Kissing the rod that chastised me’: Scarlett, Rhett and Miscegenation in Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind (1936) Irish Journal of American Studies Volume 13/14, (2004/2005) pages 123-137 Sinéad Moynihan, Lecturer in English University of Exeter “It’s all so mixed up,” Cindy muses in a 2001 parody of Gone With the Wind, as she imaginatively…
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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…
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This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of ‘passing’. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction.