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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Good Girls Don’t Date Dead Boys: Toying with Miscegenation in Zombie Films Journal of Popular Film and Television Volume 42, Issue 4, 2014 DOI: 10.1080/01956051.2014.881772 pages 176-185 Chera Kee, Assistant Professor of English Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Concerning in-between bodies, zombie films have a unique vantage on miscegenation. Exploring earlier films alongside contemporary romantic…
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Look! A Zombie! Race and Passing in ‘iZombie’ PopMatters 2015-10-30 Rukmini Pande University of Western Australia iZombie’s “passing” narrative complicates its broader racial politics. As the fall season of US TV swings into gear, the CW’s undead caper iZombie seems poised for an interesting second outing. Helmed by Rob Thomas (of Veronica Mars fame), the…
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“Western Zombies and Their Killers: Exceptionalism, the Empty West, and Mixed Race Families” a lecture by Dr. Anne Hyde Colorado State University Cherokee Park Ballroom, Lory Student Center Fort Collins, Colorado 2014-12-04, 16:30-18:30 MST (Local Time) Please join us for a public lecture and book signing/reception by Dr. Anne Hyde, William R. Hochman Professor of…
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Dawn of the Different: The Mulatto Zombie in Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead The Journal of Popular Culture Volume 45, Issue 3 (June 2012) pages 551–571 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2012.00944.x Justin Ponder WHILE ZOMBIE FILMS DO NOT BLATANTLY FOCUS ON miscegenation or mulattos, interracial themes abound in them. In George A. Romero’s Night of the Living…