{"id":33553,"date":"2013-09-11T03:57:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T03:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33553"},"modified":"2013-10-05T04:53:33","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T04:53:33","slug":"interracial-family-memoirs-reconstructing-genealogies-across-the-color-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33553","title":{"rendered":"Interracial Family Memoirs: Reconstructing Genealogies across the Color Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interracial Family Memoirs: Reconstructing Genealogies across the Color Line<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Yale University<\/a>
\n230 Prospect Street
\nRoom 101
\nNew Haven, Connecticut 06511
\n2013-09-16, 12:00-13:15 EDT (Local Time)<\/p>\n

Cedric Essi<\/a><\/strong>, Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies
\nUniversity of Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg<\/em><\/p>\n

During the last two decades numerous autobiographical works have emerged which explore family histories in black and white, such as Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> “Dreams from My Father<\/a>,” June Cross\u2019s<\/a> “Secret Daughter<\/a>” or Edward Ball\u2019s<\/a> “Slaves in the Family<\/a>.” Essi subsumes these works under the umbrella term \u2018interracial family memoir\u2019 and draws up a typology of \u2018genealogies\u2019 in order to categorize and interrogate the ways in which these texts thematize kinship across the color line. This talk will provide a critical overview of the genre and discusses how the US-specific ideology of the one-drop rule<\/a> affects interracial family experiences, to what extent transnational affiliations conflict with racial self-identification, on what terms white motherhood is rendered visible and how the interracial family is often imagined as an allegory of the American nation. This talk is part of the GLC Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your lunch; drinks & dessert will be provided.<\/p>\n

For more information, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interracial Family Memoirs: Reconstructing Genealogies across the Color Line Yale University 230 Prospect Street Room 101 New Haven, Connecticut 06511 2013-09-16, 12:00-13:15 EDT (Local Time) Cedric Essi, Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies University of Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg During the last two decades numerous autobiographical works have emerged which explore family histories in black and white, such as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,1196,13,8,20],"tags":[15687,7672],"class_list":["post-33553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-cedric-essi","tag-yale-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}