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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“Split At The Root”: The Reformation of The Mulatto Hero/Heroine AmeriQuests (Online) Vanderbilt University Volume 6, Number 1 2008-11-18 Tia L. Gafford, Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies Mercer University Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy offers a valuable insight on the development of a holistic and natural model for patriarchy in the 19th…
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Coloring History and Mixing Race in Levina Urbino’s ‘Sunshine in the Palace and Cottage’ and Louise Heaven’s ‘In Bonds’ Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers Volume 24, Number 2 (2007) E-ISSN: 1534-0643, Print ISSN: 0748-4321 DOI: 10.1353/leg.2007.0018 Eric Gardner, Professor of English Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan While the figure of the “tragic mulatta”…
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Mixed-Race Issues in the American and French Melodrama: An Analysis of the Imitation of Life Films (Stahl, USA, 1934; Sirk, USA, 1959) and Métisse (Kassovitz, France, 1993) In: Martin McLoone & Kevin Rockett, eds. Irish Films, Global Cinema, Studies in Irish Film 4. Four Courts Press 2007 176 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-1-84682-081-6 Zélie Asava University…
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The dismissal of the “mulatto” through his emasculation is historically grounded: “so frequently did nineteenth century writers depict octoroons as delicate beauties that the word itself began to conjure up images of passive femininity. Although by definition an octoroon was either a male or a female with one-eighth Black blood, Black men in novels were…
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Demystifying the “Tragic Mulatta”: the Biracial Woman as Spectacle Stanford Black Arts Quarterly Stanford University 2.3 (Summer/Spring 1997) Pages 12-14 Stafanie Dunning, Associate Professor and Director of Literature Program Miami University, Ohio “You know redbone girls got a problem.” —Cassandra Wilson, Blue Light ‘Til Dawn “Indigenous like corn, like corn the mestiza is a product…
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Demystifying the Tragic Mulatta: The Biracial Woman as Spectacle Stanford Black Arts Quarterly Volume 2, Issue 3 (Summer/Spring 1997) pages 12-14 Stefanie Dunning, Associate Professor Miami University (of Ohio) To talk about the complexities of subjectivity is to enter into a discussion which necessarily locates itself at the intersection of race, clans, gender and sexuality.…
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Why can a “white” woman give birth to a “black” baby, while a “black” woman can never give birth to a “white” baby in the United States? What makes racial “passing” so different from social mobility? Why are interracial and incestuous relations often confused or conflated in literature, making “miscegenation” appear as if it were…