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
- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- 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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Artist, surfer Kip Fulbeck to exhibit work at MSU Times Record News Wichita Falls, Texas 2016-11-03 Richard Carter, Special to the Times Record News Kip Fulbeck Kip Fulbeck grew up in Hawaii as the child of a Chinese mother and a white American father. In elementary school, children would come up to him and ask, “Who…
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In An Election Defined By Race, How Do We Define Race? FiveThirtyEight 2016-11-06 Farai Chideya, Senior Writer When I was younger, I had an idea for a satire in which a group of rogue genealogists would get blood samples from racially incendiary white politicians. They’d run DNA tests on them to see if they were…
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‘You don’t see many of them round here’: being black in the white, rural West Country gal-dem 2016-09-05 Louisa Adjoa Parker My parents met when my dad came to the UK from Ghana in the 1960s to train as a nurse. He married my mum, and I was born in Doncaster in 1972. I don’t…
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EXCLUSIVE: Ruth Negga on How Feeling Alien Inspired Her Oscar-Worthy Performance and the Power of ‘Loving’ Entertainment Tonight 2016-11-06 John Boone Photo: Getty Images Ruth Negga may go from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. to the Academy Awards, which is no easy feat even for a Marvel superhero. The 34-year-old actress may be most recognizable for her…
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Mark Loving on the film ‘Loving’ and a Supreme Court case that changed the nation Eastern Mennonite University Harrisonburg, Virginia 2016-11-03 Lauren Jefferson, Editor-in-Chief Mark Loving, a sophomore at Eastern Mennonite University, shows a photo of his great-grandparents, Mildred and Richard Loving. In 1967, the couple won a Supreme Court case that eventually led to…
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In my family, racial passing and the deception it involved was the ultimate taboo and betrayal. It was what the writer Nella Larsen called a hazardous business, “this breaking away from all that was familiar and friendly to take one’s chance in another environment, not entirely strange, perhaps, but certainly not entirely friendly.” The first…