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Mixed-Race Identity in the American South - Roots, Memory, and Family Secrets (Hardcover)
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Mixed-Race Identity in the American South - Roots, Memory, and Family Secrets (Hardcover)
Series: New Studies in Southern History
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This interdisciplinary investigation argues that since the 1990s,
discourses about mixed-race heritage in the United States have
taken the shape of a veritable literary genre, here termed "memoir
of the search." The study uses four different texts to explore this
non-fictional genre, including Edward Ball's Slaves in the Family
and Shirlee Taylor Haizlip's The Sweeter the Juice. All feature a
protagonist using methods from archival investigation to
DNA-testing to explore an intergenerational family secret;
photographs and family trees; and the trip to the American South,
which is identified as the site of the secret's origin and of the
family's past. As a genre, these texts negotiate the memory of
slavery and segregation in the present. In taking up central
narratives of Americanness, such as the American Dream and the
Immigrant story, as well as discourses generating the American
family, the texts help inscribe themselves and the mixed-race
heritage they address into the American mainstream. In its outlook,
this book highlights the importance of the memoirs' negotiations of
the past when finding ways to remember after the last witnesses
have passed away. and contributes to the discussion over political
justice and reparations for slavery.
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