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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Miscegenation"”.
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Stories of Miscegenation: Fact and Fiction of Interracial Life and Art
… and counterimages that suggest that the real of miscegenation and hybridity is almost inextricably bound to the imaginary complex that is formed by pseudo-science and literature. She comes to the conclusion that, in order to counteract the effects of centuries of pseudo-scientific conditioning, …
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Construcciones Literarias Del Artista E Intelectual Del Siglo XIX en Hispanoamerica
… characterize the formation, transculturation and miscegenation of the Spanish American subaltern artists and intellectuals in their quest for the reconstruction of a modern and authentic Spanish American nation/narration.
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Mining the garrison of racial prejudice: The fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt and turn-of-the-century White racial discourse
… Bruce. Chapter Three examines the treatment of miscegenation and depiction of mulattoes in Chesnutt's collection of stories The Wife of His Youth (1899) in conjunction with anti-miscegenation literature by Page, Thomas Dixon, Jr., William Smith, and William Calhoun. Chapter Four focuses on the …
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Zur Problematik von Herkunft, Geschlecht und Identitätsfindung in den beiden Romanen von Nella Larsen "Quicksand" (1928) und "Passing" (1929)
… existierenden sog. Rassenmischungsverboten (Anti-Miscegenation Laws) sowie an schwarzen Weiblichkeitsentwürfen reiben. Aus kultureller wie auch aus literarischer Perspektive sind diese Identitäten interessant, da sie lange als „schwarz“ und nicht als „interrassisch“ eingeordnet wurden und eigene …
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"Ocular Proof": Race, Religion, and Gender in The Merchant of Venice and Othello
… imperial desires alongside fears of invasion and miscegenation. Alongside these topics, the project addresses "ocular proof" which serves as a cultural methodology for demonstrating racial hierarchies. Shakespeare questions this technique by illustrating the flaws of visual evidence.</p>
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Tissage Du Métissage: Construction Et Création Des Personnages Et Textes Métisses Dans La Littérature Contemporaine Francophone
… agree on the erroneous nature of the term miscegenation which is based on the axiom presupposing the existence of difference races within the human species, yet one is forced to recognize métissage as a concrete cultural and social phenomenon as well as a very real way to define a category …
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The Mixed Marriages Act (1949) : a theological critique based on the investigation of legislative action and church responses to this legislation
… chapter two, which deals with the drive for anti-miscegenation laws in that country, with special reference to the role of the Afrikaans Reformed churches in this regard. The third chapter takes up this historical material, examining the nature of the initial debate on the Mixed Marriages Act in …
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Memories of race: Representations of mixed race people in girls' comic magazines in post-occupation Japan
… race people grows in Japan, anxieties about miscegenation in today's context of intensified globalization continue to increase. Indeed, the multiracial reality has recently gotten attention and led to heightened discussions surrounding it in Japanese society, specifically, in the media. …
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The Church as an Agent of Reconciliation in the Thought of Desmond Tutu
… for the Whites or have arisen as a result of miscegenation between the Blacks and the Whites. Archbishop Desmond Tutu holds that racial tension is neither good for South Africa nor even Christian, and insists that it should be eliminated, giving way to reconciliation.</p> <p>The purpose of …
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Tartars at whose gates? Framing Russian identity through political adaptations of nineteenth-century French works by Astolphe de Custine and Jules Verne
… had tamed its Tartar past, or fallen victim to miscegenation.
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'Garden of evil' : images of the enemy in American war literature 1962-1990
… and racistdiscourses (including the imagery of miscegenation, racial 'purity' and'corruption'); and fourth, internecine and intra-subjective enemies and formsof conflict.The 'conventional' enemy in the novels discussed is Japanese orVietnamese, but conceptions of 'the enemy within' also form a …
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Creole identity: a post-colonial research in contemporary Mauritius
… entanglement of cultures, transculturation, and miscegenation). This research examines creoles and non-creoles’ perceptions of marginalisation and categorisation. This includes the impact of racism and stereotyping in contemporary Mauritius, including how creole identity construction is shaped by …
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Indian Political Thought and Germany's Fascism, ca. 1918-1950
… a Hindu ‘race’ as grounded in impurity, miscegenation, and women. Savarkar problematised the Hindus’ historical loss of the power of caste to transform outsiders into blood-relations. Reactivating exogamy, he called for Hindu males to imprint their race on Muslim women by …
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Tennessee Williams and the southern dialetic : in search of androgyny
… notably flesh and spirit, past and present, and miscegenation. Although he explored each with precise attention to balance, Williams returnedto flesh and spirit and its teleological (as opposed to theological) assessment of the human condition as his thematic touchstone.From his first performed …
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The Erotics of Race Suicide: The Making of Whiteness and the Death Drive in the Progressive Era, 1880-1920
… restrictions, the reinforcement of anti-miscegenation laws, and the policing of non-reproductive sexual behaviors, Progressive politics attempted to halt the metaphorical suicide of the “master race.” While the specter of race suicide haunted the nation, Progressive Era literature saw the …
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Race in the Scientific Imagination at the Turn of the Twentieth Century in Brazil and Cuba
… was offered in countries marked by racial miscegenation as the means for cultural originality as well as the main threat to their political consolidation. This constituent relation of the racial difference, evident in Euclides da Cunha's masterpiece Os Sertões (1902) or in Fernando Ortiz's …
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The Dialectics of Form: Reification and Genre in Early Twentieth-Century American Literature
… subjects to manage white anxieties about miscegenation. These chapters examine how texts featuring mixed-race heroines work with and against romance and naturalist conventions to re-narrate histories of colonial capitalism and overcome experiential disconnections imposed upon self and …
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The Promise of Marriage Consent: Family Politics, the United Nations, and Women’s Rights in the US, 1947-1967
… project an opportunity to shore up state anti-miscegenation laws.</p><p>Conflicts about what human rights were and how best to defend them took shape through the debates about the Marriage Convention, both in the United Nations and in the United States as proponents pressured the Senate to …
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"Passing women": gender and hybridity in the fiction of three female South African authors
… represents the third generation of the initial 'miscegenation'. I look at the effect the racist social milieu has on the author�s representation of coloured women and how this translates into apparently insurmountable beliefs that stereotypes equal nature. Chapter 3: Playing in the Light …
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The Radical Heart: The Politics of Love in the Struggle for African-American Equality, 1833-2000
… scholars of interracial marriage assert that antimiscegenation laws were not historical absolutes but contingent, contested, shifting measures across time and space subject to debate and contravention. The twin revelations that interracial sex was both privately common and publicly important do …
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