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: Werner Sollors
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THINK TANK; Uncovering an Interracial Literature of Love . . . and Racism The New York Times 2004-04-17 Emily Eakin The word miscegenation entered America’s bitter racial politics and the national lexicon by way of an ambitious hoax. On Christmas Day in 1863, an anonymous 72-page pamphlet appeared on newsstands around New York City. Titled…
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Pudd’nhead Wilson Harvard University Press February 2015 (Originally Published in 1894) 190 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches 7 line illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9780674059832 Mark Twain (1835-1910) Introduction by: Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University When a murder takes place…
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Before Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, before James Weldon Johnson and James Baldwin, Charles W. Chesnutt broke new ground in American literature with his innovative exploration of racial identity and his use of African American speech and folklore.
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A Critique of Pure Pluralism Chapter in: Reconstructing American Literary History Harvard University Press 1986 386 pages ISBN-10: 1583484167; ISBN-13: 978-1583484166 Edited by: Sacvan Bercovitch, Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of American Literature Harvard University pages 250-279 Chapter Author: Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Afro American Studies;…
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“Never Was Born”: The Mulatto, an American Tragedy? The Massachusetts Review Volume 27, Number 2 (Summer, 1986) page 293-316 Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Afro American Studies; Director of the History of American Civilization Program Harvard University In my first marriage I paid my compliments to my…
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Werner Sollors to speak at University of Richmond English Department 2010-2011 Writers’ Series University of Richmond Westhampton Living Room, Westhampton Center Richmond, Virginia 2010-09-30 16:30 EDT (Local Time) Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Afro American Studies; Director of the History of American Civilization Program Harvard University Werner…
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ENGL S-88 Study Abroad in Venice, Italy: Interracial Literature (32137) Harvard Summer Program in Venice, Italy: Liberal arts studies in Italy’s city of canals 2010-06-03 through 2010-07-30 Mondays, Wednesdays, 10:00-12:30 CEST (Local Time) (4 credits: UN, GR) Limited enrollment Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English and African-American Studies Harvard University…
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An exploration of a great American writer’s abiding concern with the color line