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Mixed-race identity in the American South : roots, memory, and family secrets / by Sattler, Julia,author.(CARDINAL)888187;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index.Introduction : Memoir of the search : the emergence of mixed-race literary genre -- Writing mixed selves at the turn of the millennium -- Family secrets : uncovering mixed-race heritage -- Media of memory : generating the family -- Narrating the mixed-race nation -- The past in the present : encounters with the south -- Conclusion : Making history at the turn of the millennium.
Subjects: African Americans; Autobiography in literature.; Collective memory; Race in literature.; Race; Multiracial people in literature; Multiracial people;
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How they shine : Melungeon characters in the fiction of Appalachia / by Vande Brake, Katherine.(CARDINAL)279935;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-290) and index.
Subjects: American fiction; Authors, American; Multiracial people in literature; Mountain life in literature.; Melungeons in literature.;
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The "tragic mulatta" revisited : race and nationalism in nineteenth-century antislavery fiction / by Raimon, Eve Allegra,1957-(CARDINAL)280972;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-189) and index.Reading miscegenation -- Of romances and republics in Lydia Maria Child's miscegenation fiction -- Revising the "Quadroon narrative" in William Wells Brown's Clotel -- Resistant cassys in Richard Hildreth's The slave and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin -- Public poor relief and national belonging in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig -- The "tragic mulatta" then and now.1710L
Subjects: American fiction; Race in literature.; Nationalism and literature; African American women in literature.; Antislavery movements in literature.; Multiracial people in literature; Tragic, The, in literature.; Nationalism in literature.; Slavery in literature.; Women in literature.;
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In search of Hannah Crafts : critical essays on The bondwoman's narrative / by Gates, Henry Louis,Jr.(CARDINAL)162666; Robbins, Hollis,1963-(CARDINAL)268063;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The literary marketplace -- Between the sentimental novel and the slave narrative -- Rewriting the canon -- Antebellum contexts -- African American Gothic -- In search of an author -- Reviews.
Subjects: Crafts, Hannah.; Women and literature; African American women in literature.; Multiracial people in literature; Passing (Identity) in literature.; Plantation life in literature.; Fugitive slaves in literature.; Slavery in literature.; North Caroliniana.;
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Race mixing : Southern fiction since the Sixties / by Jones, Suzanne Whitmore.(CARDINAL)276095;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-334) and index.Writing race relations since the Civil Rights Movement -- Lost childhoods : Black and white and misread all over -- Dismantling stereotypes : feminist connections/womanist corrections -- Refighting old wars : race, masculinity, and the sense of an ending -- Tabooed romance : love, lies, and the burden of Southern history -- Rethinking the one-drop rule : race and identity -- Still separate after all these years : place and community.
Subjects: American fiction; American fiction; Multiracial people in literature; Interracial marriage in literature.; Race relations in literature.; Miscegenation (Racist theory) in literature.; Sex role in literature.; Race in literature.;
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Black is brown is tan / by Adoff, Arnold,author.(CARDINAL)138364; McCully, Emily Arnold,illustrator.(CARDINAL)141134;
Describes in verse a family with a brown-skinned mother, white-skinned father, two children, and their various relatives.540LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Families; Human skin color; Multiracial people; Stories in rhyme;
Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 18
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The mulatta and the politics of race / by Zackodnik, Teresa C.(CARDINAL)278009;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-227) and index.Fixing the color line: the mulatta, American courts, and the racial imaginary. -- "White slaves" and tragic mulattas: the antislavery appeals of Ellen Craft and Sarah Parker Remond. -- Little romances and mulatta heroines: passing for a "true woman" in Frances Harper's Iola Leroy and Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces. -- Commodified "blackness" and performance possibilities in Jessie Fauset's The chinaberry tree and Nella Larsen's Quicksand. -- Passing transgressions, excess, and authentic identity in Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun and Nella Larsen's Passing. -- Epilogue: The "passing out" of Passing and the mulatta?
Subjects: American fiction; Race in literature.; American fiction; Political fiction, American; African American women; Politics and literature; Women and literature; Multiracial people in literature; Race relations in literature.; Racism in literature.; Women in literature.;
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The broken mirror [audio-enabled device] by De la Cruz, Melissa,1971-author.(CARDINAL)348774; Powers, Imani Jade,narrator.; Findaway World, LLC,issuing body.(CARDINAL)345268; Playaway Digital Audio,issuing body.(CARDINAL)565887;
Read by Imani Jade Powers.The Never After crew is back for another twisted adventure. This time, they're off to Snow Country, that is, after they rescue the beleaguered Lord Sharif of Nottingham from the evil Robin Hood, who has been plaguing the land with his thievery and mischief. But Robin's antics aren't the only dangers afoot in the Kingdom of Never After. At the behest of her daughter, the evil Cinderella, Queen Olga has turned Prince Charming into a Frog after his wedding to the beautiful Hortense. And how could we forget the ominous Prophecy, which still looms large over Filomena and her friends? Along with Jack, Alistair, Gretel, Beatrice, Byron Bessley, and some new Snow Country pals like Rose Red and a chatty magic mirror, Filomena sets off to find the only ones who can save the kingdom once and for all: The League of the Seven, a group of fearless warriors devoted to fighting the ogres at any cost. Still, new threats lurk around every corner, both in Never After and back home in North Pasadena ... Even with the League of the Seven's help, can Filomena and her friends rescue the land from Olga's clutches? Or will the ogres finally prevail?Grades 3-6.Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Adaptations.; Children's audiobooks.; Fairy tales.; Fantasy fiction.; Characters and characteristics in literature; Good and evil; Magic; Princes; Princesses; Multiracial people;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Orchards / by Thompson, Holly.(CARDINAL)352636; McFerrin, Grady,illustrator.(CARDINAL)593682; McFerrin, Grady.(CARDINAL)593682;
Sent to Japan for the summer after an eighth-grade classmate's suicide, half-Japanese, half-Jewish Kana Goldberg tries to fit in with relatives she barely knows and reflects on the guilt she feels over the tragedy back home.NPAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Novels in verse.; Young adult fiction.; Bullying in schools; Japanese Americans; Jews; Novels in verse; Multiracial people; Suicide;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Black is brown is tan / by Adoff, Arnold.(CARDINAL)138364; McCully, Emily Arnold,illustrator.(CARDINAL)141134;
Describes in verse a family with a brown-skinned mother, white-skinned father, two children, and their various relatives.540LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Families; Families; Human skin color; Human skin color; Multiracial families; Multiracial people; Stories in rhyme; Stories in rhyme; Stories in rhyme;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 7
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