Essays about: "mixed-race"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word mixed-race.

  1. 1. "I'LL SPEAK FOR BOTH SIDES": Coloniality and Hybridity in Identity Construction in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Filippa Kakavand; [2024-03-21]
    Keywords : Leslie Marmon Silko; Ceremony; postcolonialism; coloniality; hybridity; magical realism; identity; storytelling; Indigenous; Native American literature;

    Abstract : This study explores the complex relations between coloniality and hybridity in identity construction for the Native American community in Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony. The study aims to examine how these literary techniques contribute to the protagonist's construction of identity, specifically focusing on his mixed-race identity and the way in which coloniality influences his experience. READ MORE

  3. 2. ‘I feel like I do not really belong anywhere’ : Multiethnic and Multiracial Identities in the Finnish Context

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Leila Kuusiniemi; [2023]
    Keywords : identity construction; social identity theory; Finland; discrimination; mixed race;

    Abstract : This study examines the experiences of multiracial and multiethnic young adults in Finland, aged between 24-28, as they negotiate their daily lived experiences and construct their identities in the framework of ethnicity, race, belonging, and discrimination. The study utilises a qualitative research approach with a thematic analysis of four semi-structured interviews. READ MORE

  4. 3. becoming and belonging : narratives of negotiating racial mixedness, femininity, and sexuality

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Centrum för genusvetenskap

    Author : Nora Grollmuss; [2022]
    Keywords : mixed-race; women; belonging; becoming; intersubjectivity; autoethnography; ethnography; femininity; racialization; exotification; embodiment; phenomenology.;

    Abstract : This study is about how eight mixed-race women, residing in urban Sweden, experience their own becoming through body and sexuality and through the way they experience that other individuals and the outer world view them. The methods used are ethnographic interviewing and autoethnographic writing. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Giving Up of Greer: The Hypocrisy at the Heart of the Janus-Faced Empire : Writing Back Against the British Imperial Discourse

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : David Woods; [2021]
    Keywords : postcolonialism; colonial discourse; mixed-race children; Caryl Phillips; Crossing the River;

    Abstract : The aim of this essay is to examine the tension at the heart of the British colonial discourse as it affects the relationship of Travis and Joyce in the chapter "Somewhere in England", in Caryl Phillips's 1993 novel, Crossing the River. The thesis of the essay is that the colonial discourse of the British insists on a racial signifier in the imagined community of the British, and thus resists the idea that a person can be both black and British. READ MORE

  6. 5. Navigating the Colour Line : A Critical Mixed Race Study of Biracial Identity and the Tragic Mulatto Trope in Nella Larsen’s Passing

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Sofia von Arnold-Grön; [2020]
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