Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Victorian Literature and Culture
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Between Two Worlds: Racial Identity in Alice Perrin’s The Stronger Claim Victorian Literature and Culture Volume 42, Special Issue 3, September 2014 pages 491-508 DOI: 10.1017/S1060150314000114 Melissa Edmundson Makala University of South Carolina Like many Anglo-Indian novelists of her generation, Alice Perrin (1867–1934) gained fame through the publication and popular reception of several domestic novels…
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“The Ineffaceable Curse of Cain”: Race, Miscegenation, and the Victorian Staging of Irishness Victorian Literature and Culture Volume 29, Number 2 (September 2001) pages 383–396 Scott Boltwood, Associate Professor of English Emory & Henry College, Emory, Virginia THROUGHOUT THE NINETEENTH CENTURY both the English popular and scientific communities increasingly argued for a distinct racial difference…
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The Tragic Mulatta Plays the Tragic Muse Victorian Literature and Culture Volume 37, Issue 2 (June 2009) pages 501-522 DOI: 10.1017/S1060150309090317 Kimberly Snyder Manganellia, Assistant Professor of 19th-Century British and American Literature Clemson University Marie Lavington, the runaway octoroon slave in Charles Kingsley‘s little-read novel Two Years Ago (1857), makes this declaration of independence in…