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1	Mapping the Mixed Race Identity in Black White and Jewish Liao, Kuan-hui 25 July 2007 (has links) This thesis attempts to read Rebecca Walker's memoir Black White and Jewish as an investigation into the problematic of the social construct of race. It begins with an elaboration on the society's phobia about racial amalgamation owing to its potentiality to alter color boundaries, which are maintained through the manipulation of power. Born in a society where racial purity is highly postulated, Walker encounters an identity crisis that renders her double alienated and marginalized. What follows, thereby, is an examination of the identity formation of Walker as a mixed black and white individual, as well as a discussion of how racial hybridity may challenge essentialist racialization. With its fluidity and ambiguity, Walker's mixed race identity turns out to contest and further destabilize the immutability, stability, and homogeneity of essentializing racial categories. By cherishing the boundary-crossing capability a multiracial possesses, Walker could liberate herself from the shackles of the trauma of racism. mixed race identity politics racism racial purity hybridity
2	“The Nonmusical Message Will Endure With It:” The Changing Reputation and Legacy of John Powell (1882-1963) Adam, Karen 24 April 2012 (has links) This thesis explores the changing reputation and legacy of John Powell (1882-1963). Powell was a Virginian-born pianist, composer, and ardent Anglo-Saxon supremacist who created musical propaganda to support racial purity and to define the United States as an exclusively Anglo-Saxon nation. Although he once enjoyed international fame, he has largely disappeared from the public consciousness today. In contrast, the legacies of many of Powell’s musical contemporaries, such as Charles Ives and George Gershwin, have remained vigorous. By examining the ways in which the public has perceived and portrayed Powell both during and after his lifetime, this thesis links Powell’s obscurity to a deliberate, public rejection of his Anglo-Saxon supremacist definition of the United States. John Powell (1882-1963) Powell John musical propaganda Anglo-Saxon Clubs of America Anglo-Saxon supremacy white supremacy Racial Integrity Act of 1924 one drop rule racial integrity racial purity John Powell Foundation White Top Folk Festival Annabel Morris Buchanan Buchanan Annabel Morris Radford University Radford College Powell Hall Roy Hamlin Johnson Johnson Roy Hamlin classical music classical piano classical pianist pianist Virginian Virginia Earnest Sevier Cox Cox Earnest Sevier Walter Ashby Plecker Plecker Walter Ashby Sonate Noble Sonata Teutonica Symphony in A Rhapsodie Negre Richard Brockwell Brockwell Richard At the Fair Sonata Virginianesque Marcus Garvey Garvey Marcus John Powell Day Anglo-Saxon folk music Anglo-Saxon racism racist Martin Luther King Jr. King Martin Luther Jr. musical politics sociopolitical memory public memory public history reputation legacy Richmond Virginia John Powell Arts and Humanities History

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Mapping the Mixed Race Identity in Black White and Jewish

“The Nonmusical Message Will Endure With It:” The Changing Reputation and Legacy of John Powell (1882-1963)