Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Western American Literature
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John Rollin Ridge’s Joaquín Murieta: Sensation, Hispanicism, and Cosmopolitanism Western American Literature Volume 49, Number 4, Winter 2015 pages 321-349 DOI: 10.1353/wal.2015.0008 John C. Havard, Assistant Professor Department of English and Philosophy Auburn University, Montgomery, Alabama The mixed-race Cherokee poet, journalist, and novelist John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, the Celebrated…
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Mixed-Bloods, Mestizas, and Pintos: Race, Gender, and Claims to Whiteness in Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s Who Would Have Thought It? Western American Literature Volume 36, Number 3 (Fall 2001) pages 212-231 Margaret D. Jacobs, Professor of History & Director, Women’s and Gender Studies University of Nebraska, Lincoln Since the…