Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
- Loving Across Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health Conference
- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- 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.
about
Tag: Teresa Christine Zackodnik
-
Beyond the Pale: Unsettling “Race” and Womanhood in the Novels of Harper, Hopkins, Fauset and Larsen
Beyond the Pale: Unsettling “Race” and Womanhood in the Novels of Harper, Hopkins, Fauset and Larsen McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada December 1996 303 pages Teresa Christine Zackodnik, Professor of English University of Alberta, Canada A thesis Submitted to the School of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor Of…
-
Fixing the Color Line: The Mulatto, Southern Courts, and Racial Identity American Quarterly Volume 53, Number 3 (September 2001) pages 420-451 E-ISSN: 1080-6490 Print ISSN: 0003-0678 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2001.0033 Teresa Zackodnik, Professor of English University of Alberta, Canada In July 1857 Abby Guy sued for her freedom and that of her four children in an Arkansas…
-
An analysis of how black women used the mulatta figure to contest racial barriers.