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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedHenry Louis Gates, Jr., claims that "one of the ironies" of the New Negro Movement "is that words, not the tactics of visual representation, were the tools blacks used to assert their self-image" (xliv). While we can...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn her interrelated novels Gilead (2004) and Home (2008), Marilynne Robinson portrays American racism in a surprising and subtle way. Apart from Jack Boughton's African American wife and son, Della and Robert Miles,...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedNarratives of racial passing frequently investigate how the boundaries of race can be reimagined. In these texts, the dominant black-white binary construction is often under scrutiny for its failure to accommodate the...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed--Langston Hughes, "House in the World" (1-8) We might be surprised to read a poem resigned to the impossibility of liberating black life from the "white shadows" written by Langston Hughes who, just five years...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedI am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedOver the past fifteen years, scholars from Saidiya Hartman to Catherine Toal have addressed the hegemonic tendencies of sentimental identification in white abolitionist politics and literature in the US. They have...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed
When "second generation" narratives and Hollywood meet: making ethnicity in My Big Fat Greek Wedding
As the nation has held itself up to the media mirror ... the image of white America that reflects back looks less and less like the whitebread, Protestant world of Rob and Laura Petrie [from The Dick Van Dyke Show... -
From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWe live in a media-saturated world and our brains are constantly influenced and bombarded by mass and popular culture media such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and, of course, television. As N. Katherine Hayles has...