Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Author: Steven
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Dr. Albert C. Johnston, Negro physician in Keene, N. H., whose story of passing for white was told in the movie “Lost Boundaries,” was fired from his post as radiologist at Keene’s Elliott Community Hospital.
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Three years after the release of “Lost Boundaries,” Dr. [Albert] Johnston was fired from his job as a radiologist at Keene Community Hospital. The president of the hospital board told reporters “racial prejudice was not the reason for the dismissal,” but the doctor believed otherwise. “They have been picking on me ever since my story…
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How a UNH student inspired one of America’s first “race films” and why we’re still talking about it
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A mixed-race son choosing his identity is a lesson for us all The San Francisco Chronicle 2022-05-03 Kevin Fisher-Paulson This week, Aidan decided he is Black. He announced this at the family dinner table, as we served mashed potatoes, green beans and meat loaf. Aidan used to like my meat loaf, but everything changes. Aidan’s…
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The Grammy award-winning album, released by Nonesuch last April, has been widely celebrated by the NY Times, NPR Music, NPR, Rolling Stone, People, Associated Press and far beyond, with No Depression deeming it “a near perfect album…her finest work to date.”
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I always felt like an outsider, but being mixed is filled with beauty and complexity.