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: Small Axe
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Why and how race became the key to enslaveability was a question posed and resolved using myriad strategies across the early modern Atlantic as traders and setters constructed paradigms that enabled the exchange of human commodities and the enslaved constructed paradigms that enabled their response to the New World order. Children born to parents who…
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Using a seventeenth-century Virginia slave code as its anchor, this essay explores the explicit and implicit consequences of slaveowners’ efforts to control enslaved women’s reproductive lives.
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This essay focuses on artwork that centers family photographs and home movies as a point of departure to trouble the conventional family album in order to narrate a story about Caribbean Chinese kinship.
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This essay focuses on artwork that centers family photographs and home movies as a point of departure to trouble the conventional family album in order to narrate a story about Caribbean Chinese kinship.
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The Black/White Color Spectrum Small Axe Volume 21, Number 1, March 2017 (No. 52) pages 143-152 Sandra Stephens The artist reflects on her place within the black/white color spectrum in Jamaica and the United States and looks at how she addresses both whiteness and blackness within her work. Using her piece Face of the Enemy,…
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From Aesthetics to Allegory: Raphaël Confiant, the Creole Novel, and Interdisciplinary Translation Small Axe Volume 17, Number 3, November 2013 (No. 42) pages 89-99 Justin Izzo, Assistant Professor of French Studies Brown University This essay examines the roles played by ethnographic writing and translation in Raphaël Confiant’s 1994 L’allée des soupirs. This novel fictionalizes the…
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Violent Liaisons: Historical Crossings and the Negotiation of Sex, Sexuality, and Race in The Book of Night Women and The True History of Paradise small axe: a caribbean journal of criticism Volume 16,Number 2, 38 (2012) pages 43-59 DOI: 10.1215/07990537-1665668 Sam Vásquez, Associate Professor of English Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Increased criticism and representations…
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Hybrid Navigator Small Axe Number 32 (Volume 14, Number 2), June 2010 pages 150-159 E-ISSN: 1534-6714 Print ISSN: 0799-0537 Satch Hoyt, Artist/Sculptor I was born in London to an Afro-Jamaican father and a white English mother in the late 1950s. It was, to say the least, a lonely terra nova, a traumatic neocolonial, cross-cultural terrain,…
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Race, Creole, and National Identities in Rhys’s “Wide Sargasso Sea” and Phillips’s “Cambridge” Small Axe Number 21 (Volume 10, Number 3) October 2006 pages 87-104 E-ISSN: 1534-6714, Print ISSN: 0799-0537 DOI: 10.1353/smx.2006.0035 Vivian Nun Halloran, Assoiate Professor of Comparative Literature Indiana University, Bloomington As postmodern historical novels dramatizing slavery and its legacy in the anglophone…
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White but Not Quite: Tones and Overtones of Whiteness in Brazil Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism Volume 13, Number 2 (July 2009) pages 39-56 DOI: 10.1215/02705346-2009-005 Patricia de Santana Pinho State Univiersity of New York, Albany This article analyzes anecdotes, jokes, standards of beauty, color categories, and media representations of “mixed-race” individuals to…