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: The Mississippi Quarterly
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The suggestion of a fruitless future for the black American is reinforced in the faces of the two young figures. Homer endows the women with traditional Caucasian features by painting them with light skin and slender facial bone structure. By representing the figures with a combination of both prototypical black and white physical characteristics, Homer…
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After Traveling to Virginia during the Civil War as a field illustrator for the New York journal Harper’s Weekly, Winslow Homer returned to this area toward the end of the Reconstruction period to paint primarily around Richmond and Petersburg. Having abandoned his career as illustrator to devote himself exclusively to painting, Homer sketched outdoors near…
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West Meets East: Nineteenth-Century Southern Dialogues on Mixture, Race, Gender, and Nation The Mississippi Quarterly Volume 56, Number 4 (Fall 2003) Suzanne Bost, Associate Professor of English Loyola University When I was growing up in the Eastern half of the United States, American history was presented to me in neatly binary terms: Cowboys and Indians,…