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: William L. Andrews
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The uneasy existence of being black and passing for white.
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When Ancestry Search Led To Escaped Slave: ‘All I Could Do Was Weep’ Fresh Air (From WHYY in Philadelphia) National Public Radio 2016-01-18 Terry Gross, Host When she was in fifth grade, Regina Mason received a school assignment that would change her life: to connect with her country of origin. That night, she went home…
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The first fugitive slave narrative in American history
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Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line: Collected Stories Penguin Classics June 2000 304 pages 5.23 x 7.59in Paperback ISBN: 9780141185026 Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) Edited by: William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Unlike the popular “Uncle Remus” stories of Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W.…
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Mandy Oxendine University of Illinois Press September 1997 136 pages ISBN-10: 0252063473 ISBN-13: 9780252063473 Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) Foreword by William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill In a novel rejected by a major publisher in the 19th century as too shocking for its time, writer Charles…
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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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The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt Louisiana State University Press March 1999 312 pages Trim: 6 x 9 Paper ISBN-13: 9780807124529 William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The career of any black writer in nineteenth-century American was fraught with difficulties, and William Andrews undertakes to…