{"id":34797,"date":"2013-11-19T23:08:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T23:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34797"},"modified":"2015-05-26T01:17:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T01:17:42","slug":"english-prof-diana-mafe-pens-literary-analysis-of-biracial-blacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34797","title":{"rendered":"English prof. Diana Mafe pens literary analysis of biracial blacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denisonian.com\/2013\/11\/anl\/english-prof-diana-mafe-pens-literary-analysis-of-biracial-blacks\/\" target=\"_blank\">English prof. Diana Mafe pens literary analysis of biracial blacks<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denisonian.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Denisonian: Denison University&#8217;s student publication since 1857<\/a><br \/>\nGranville, Ohio<br \/>\n2013-11-19<\/p>\n<p><strong>Curtis Edmonds<\/strong>, Forum Editor<\/p>\n<p>The United States is undoubtedly one of the most\u2013if not the most\u2013racially diverse country in the world, and seven percent of American children born in the last decade were bi- or multiracial. Denison English professor <a href=\"http:\/\/denison.edu\/people\/diana-mafe\" target=\"_blank\">Diana Mafe<\/a>, a Canada native, has a new book out that explores literary representations of biracial blacks in the United States and South Africa titled, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=34795\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature: Coloring outside the (Black and White) Lines<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mafe\u2019s book, which was published earlier this month, is a 150-page examination of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Feminist_theory\" target=\"_blank\">feminist<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Queer_theory\" target=\"_blank\">queer theory<\/a> as it applies to the American \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulattos<\/a>\u201d and the South African \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=9281\" target=\"_blank\">coloureds<\/a>,\u201d different terms for the same subject: biracial children who are the offspring of black and white parents.<\/p>\n<p>The first 40 pages or so act as both a history lesson and introduction to the topic. She describes how mulattos and coloureds came to be \u2013 through consensual and nonconsensual sexual relationships between white men and black or African women as a result of colonialism and slavery&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Today, the mulatto <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trope_(literature)\" target=\"_blank\">literary trope<\/a> continues to be popular. Mafe asserts that this is because the \u201cmulatto embodies infinite binaries.\u201d And, she\u2019s right. What better character type to navigate right and wrong, good and bad, black and white, than a character who literally falls in the middle?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denisonian.com\/2013\/11\/anl\/english-prof-diana-mafe-pens-literary-analysis-of-biracial-blacks\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English prof. Diana Mafe pens literary analysis of biracial blacks The Denisonian: Denison University&#8217;s student publication since 1857 Granville, Ohio 2013-11-19 Curtis Edmonds, Forum Editor The United States is undoubtedly one of the most\u2013if not the most\u2013racially diverse country in the world, and seven percent of American children born in the last decade were bi- [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,1196,8,520,20],"tags":[16419,16420,14238,2521,1010,16418],"class_list":["post-34797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-south-africa","category-usa","tag-curtis-edmonds","tag-denison-university","tag-diana-a-mafe","tag-diana-adesola-mafe","tag-diana-mafe","tag-the-denisonian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34797","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=34797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}