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	White Yet Non-White: Miscegenation in Natasha Trethewey's Native Guard (2007) by Sofia Politidou
	This article examines the changes in the concept of miscegenation, from the slavery years to the 1960s and the 2000s, as recorded in Natasha Trethewey's Pulitzer Prize poetry collection Native Guard (2007). Through a close reading of the poems "Pastoral," "Miscegenation," "Blond," "Southern Gothic" and "South" from the third mainly autobiographical section of the collection, it shall be argued that, while in the past, miscegenation was strictly a matter of race for African-Americans, nowadays, it is also a matter of identity and self identification. Trethewey narrates how she experienced discrimination for being a mixed-race person in the early years of her life. She also describes how being a mixed-race person led her to a quest for selfhood. Trethewey believes that American anti-miscegenation laws enhanced her feeling of being different and caused her to doubt her identity as black, white or a person of mixed race. Click the link to read the article.

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