Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: The Southern Literary Journal
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Terrance Hayes and Natasha Trethewey: Contemporary Black Chroniclers of the Imagined South The Southern Literary Journal Volume 44, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages 122-135 DOI: 10.1353/slj.2012.0009 William M. Ramsey, Professor of English Francis Marion University, Florence, South Carolina “I Don’t Hate the South.” — book title by Houston Baker, Jr. “The past is never dead.…
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“Cane”, Race, and “Neither/Norism” The Southern Literary Journal Volume 32, Number 2 (Spring, 2000) pages 90-101 Charles Harmon “My racial composition and my position in the world are realities which I alone may determine.” —Jean Toomer to Horace Liveright Of all people, Jean Toomer wrote Cane. For a long time, this fact has made critics…
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Birth in the Briar Patch: Charles W. Chesnutt and the Problem of Racial Identity The Southern Literary Journal Volume 41, Number 2, Spring 2009 pages 1-20 DOI: 10.1353/slj.0.0040 Daniel Worden, Assistant Professor of English University of Colorado, Colorado Springs In his speech “The Courts and the Negro,” written around 1908, Charles W. Chesnutt faults the…
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Fear and Desire: Regional Aesthetics and Colonial Desire in Kate Chopin’s Portrayals of the Tragic Mulatta Stereotype The Southern Literary Journal Volume 43, Number 1 (Fall 2010) pages 1-22 E-ISSN: 1534-1461 Print ISSN: 0038-4291 Dagmar Pegues The interrogation of the category of race in Kate Chopin’s fiction represents an essential dimension of regional aesthetics, and…
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“What Are You?”: Exploring Racial Categorization in “Nowhere Else on Earth” The Southern Literary Journal Volume 39, Number 1 (Fall, 2006) pages 33-53 Erica Abrams Locklear, Assistant Professor of Literature & Language University of North Carolina, Asheville In his introduction to the 1985 collection of essays entitled “Race,” Writing, and Difference, Henry Louis Gates rightfully…
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Family Matters in the Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt The Southern Literary Journal Volume 33, Number 2, Spring 2001 pages 30-43 E-ISSN: 1534-1461 Print ISSN: 0038-4291 DOI: 10.1353/slj.2001.0012 William M. Ramsey, Professor of English Francis Marion University Writing fiction one hundred years ago, Charles W. Chesnutt believed that America’s racial future was best embodied in…