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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Caucasia"”.
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Evolution of the genus Aristolochia (Aristolochiaceae) in the Eastern Mediterranean including the Near East and Caucasia
… members belonging to the east Mediterranean and Caucasian species (3 from Greece, 2 from Georgia and 1 from Turkey). This study reported the Mediterranean Aristolochia species as two molecular and morphologically well supported clades, which were sister to each other. Furthermore, the two closely …
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PASSING AS JEWISH: THE MATERIAL CONSEQUENCES OF RACE AND THE PROPERTY OF WHITENESS IN LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY PASSING NOVELS
… Jewish in Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen, Caucasia by Danzy Senna, and The Human Stain by Philip Roth. In the introduction, I provide historical background on the development of the concept of race, Jewish American assimilation, and racial passing. In Chapter 1, I demonstrate that in Mona …
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Indefinite Ethnicity in Fact and Fiction: "Invisible Color" or "Honkified Meanderings"?
… Sweeter the Juice</em>, Danzy Senna's <em>Caucasia</em>, and Rosellen Brown's <em>Half a Heart</em>. The characters in these texts attempt indefinite ethnicity by denying color and are prone to restlessness and failure until they accept racial duality.</p>
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Black Biracial Crossings: Mixed-Race Identity in Modern American Literature and Culture
… Quicksand, Michelle Cliff's Abeng, Danzy Senna's Caucasia, James McBride's The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, and Rebecca Walker's Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self along with popular culture figures including Halle Berry, Vin Diesel, Mariah …
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The Sociopolitical Construction Of Race And Literary Representations Of The Biracial Subject
… Larsen's Quicksand (1928) and Danzy Senna's Caucasia (1998) in order to explore the texts' representations of systems of hegemonic power that create racial labels and categories. I discuss the binary sociopolitical construction of race in the United States (blackwhite) and the complexity of …
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CHAMELEON BOY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL LITERARY CRITIQUE OF BIRACIAL SUBJECTS IN A RACIALIZED SOCIETY
… of self to the reading of Danzy Senna <em>Caucasia</em>, which chronicles the coming of age story of Birdie Lee and her journey to self conceptualization. This dual reading of the self and text aim to emphasize the experiences that inform the ideal <em>I </em>of biracial individuals.</p>
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Nutritional Value of Warm- and Cool-Season Grasses for Ruminants
… bermudagrass [Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.], 2)caucasian bluestem [Bothriochloa caucasia (Trin.) C.E. Hubb], 3)tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.), and 4)orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata L.). The warm-season grasses (bermudagrass and bluestem) were higher (P < .01) in fiber components than …