.... Injun Joe’s Ghost: The Indian Mixed-Blood in American Writing. By Harry J. Brown. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2004. viii, 271 pp. $47.50. While the capitalist mode of production was emerging in Western Europe, the great geographical ‘‘discoveries’’ at the end of the fifteenth century were...

... of mixedness throughout Touching Feeling, often centering the scene of the mixed on the experience of shame. She tracks the shame and excitement in James’s prefaces at the mo- ments when he imagines traversing media and genre, from fiction to drama; she amplifies Jane Tompkins’s suggestion that shame...

...Ian Finseth Duke University Press 2007 Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses: Rethinking American Literature from the Revolution to the Culture Wars . By Betsy Erkkila. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2004. xii, 272 pp. $55.00. Growing Up Ethnic: Nationalism...

... that Native Christianity names itself, not as a strictly indigenous system nor as a creation of empire but rather as a mix of the two’’ (74). Wyss does not work with the less fragmentary or highly mediated narra- tives by Indians until the third of her four chapters. There Wyss explores a travel journal...

...Keith D. Leonard The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium . By Elam Michelle . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . 2011 . xxiii , 277 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper , $24.95 . The Postwar African American Novel: Protest and Discontent, 1945...

... the ‘blackness’ of his blackness What Fabi’s study lacks, for all its subtlety, is a willingness to imagine precisely what mixed-race advocates are now demand- ing we acknowledge, and what the ex-coloured man ultimately suffered...

...Victoria Ramirez Duke University Press 2006 Race Mixing: Southern Fiction since the Sixties . By Suzanne W. Jones. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 346 pp. $45.95. The Romance of Authenticity: The Cultural Politics of Regional and Ethnic Literatures . By Jeff...

... in the public arena of the lecture hall, as compared with the private arena of intimate relationships, carries mixed results when attention to his body rather than his ideas becomes the focus of his success. Second, celebrity accentuates the tension between interest in public persons and the social conformity...

..., arguing that liberty achieved its truest expression when free people mixed their labor with nature in the pursuit of self-reliance. Democratic access to arable land was a precondition of real emancipation, which required reversing capitalism's expropriation of the commons. Douglass fictionalized...

... analysis. This mixed methodology shows how readers participated in the magazine’s cultural campaign against racism by calling for socially progressive depictions of blackness. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 digital humanities periodical studies African American studies text...

... to any American with one known black ancestor still has African American defenders who argue, as Jonathan Brennan notes in Mixed Race Literature (2002), that black] commu- nities cannot afford to lose...

..., Disidentifications (1999) In a 1902 letter to Charles W. Chesnutt praising The House behind the Cedars (1900), W. Pratt Annis, an English teacher at Cold High School in Louisville, Kentucky, wrote: “I saw many scenes of my own life. . . . You see, Sir, I am what might be termed ‘hash’ or ‘mixed meat...

... the privilege of whiteness. As Deborah Mix explores Harryette Mullen’s revision of Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons, she wrestles with the lingering questions raised by ‘‘Melanctha the literal black bridge in Three Lives that sus- tains the two stories about repressed German women. Mix demon- strates...

... and desires of male narrative power.6 Bon’s mistress is especially vulnerable to such discursive violence Bon’s Octoroon Mistress and Louisa Picquet  87 because of her mixed-race origin and her position as a placée, or mis- tress. Plaçage flourished as a social arrangement...

... of mixed-blood author Louis Owens. But their goal is the same: to use a variety of theoretical methods (from Derridean- informed poststructuralism to formulations of trickster metafictional tech- niques) to enrich...

... Manganelli places into dia- logue two literary figures that have previously been read within strictly national frames: the tragic mulatta, the mixed-raced slave figure traditionally considered an American figure; and the tragic muse—based on the figure of the beautiful Jewish actress—who has been read...

.... The five poets in Amy Moorman Robbins’s book—Gertrude Stein, Laura Mullen, Alice Notley, Harryette Mullen, and Claudia Rankine—dip in and out of the lyric subject mode, using hybridity as an inherently political force for interrupting dominant American aesthetic and cultural traditions. By mixing up...

... for the groundlings. Theater has always had to appeal to mixed audi- ences. I also find it ironic that a Marxist critic snobbishly condemns middle- brow entertainment for the masses. In fact, however, there is less detailed analysis of plays in this text than there is psychoanalysis of American culture. Only...