{"id":49158,"date":"2016-09-21T19:47:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T19:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49158"},"modified":"2016-09-21T19:47:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T19:47:29","slug":"the-canary-in-the-post-racial-coal-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49158","title":{"rendered":"The canary in the post-racial coal mine"},"content":{"rendered":"

The canary in the post-racial coal mine<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
\n2013
\n35 pages
\nDOI: 10.7282\/T30Z71WG<\/a><\/p>\n

Roxanne Huertas<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

A Capstone Project submitted to the Graduate School-Camden Rutgers-The State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Liberal Studies<\/em><\/p>\n

The American mulatto<\/a> has been employed by writers over time to provide commentary on American race relations. We can look to antebellum writers like Lydia Maria Child<\/a> or William Wells Brown<\/a> as an example of the state of the black-white dynamic prior to or just following the Civil War<\/a>. Examining Nella Larsen\u2019s<\/a> Passing<\/em><\/a> can give insight into the status of race relations during the Harlem Renaissance<\/a>. But as America has evolved into a so-called post-racial society, does the mulatto still serve as a vehicle for commentary on American race relations? Through a brief examination of earlier examples of literature with these biracial characters coupled with an in depth analysis of two contemporary novels, Danzy Senna\u2019s<\/a> Caucasia<\/em><\/a> and Heidi Durrow\u2019s<\/a> The Girl Who Fell from the Sky<\/em><\/a>, this paper will show several of the ways in which the mulatto does provide a model in which to gauge American race relations, for better or for worse.<\/p>\n

Read the entire project here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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