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
- Loving Across Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health Conference
- 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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How do multiracial Asian people fit into discussions around race? The Record KUOW.org 94.9 FM | Seattle News & Information 2016-09-29 Caroline Chamberlain, Acquisitions Producer Bill Radke, Host Bill Radke sits down with Sharon H. Chang, author of “Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial World.” She explains why it’s important to study the…
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An extraordinary life: Elizabeth Anionwu Nursing Standard 2016-10-02 Thelma Agnew, Commissioning Editor Elizabeth Anionwu Celebrated nurse Elizabeth Anionwu spent 9 years in care as a child, and her early life was marked by racism and the stigma of illegitimacy. In her new book she reveals how she found her Nigerian father, and why being an…
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The Black Prince of Florence: A Medici Mystery University of York Room K/133, King’s Manor York, United Kingdom Tuesday, 2016-10-18, 19:00 BST (Local Time) Black History Month Lecture Catherine Fletcher is a historian of Renaissance and early modern Europe. Her first book, The Divorce of Henry VIII, was published in 2012 and brought to life…
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This Historian Wants You To Know The Real Story Of Southern Food The Salt: What’s On Your Plate Weekend Edition Saturday National Public Radio 2016-10-01 Erika Beras Michael Twitty wants credit given to the enslaved African-Americans who were part of Southern cuisine’s creation. Here he is in period costume at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia estate.…
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What is “White”? #EmergingUS: Exploring race, immigration and the emerging American identity 2016-09-26 In an increasingly diverse country, White Americans are an emerging racial minority. #EmergingUS travelled to one of the Whitest states, Iowa, to ask Iowans what it means to be White in a changing America. Hosted by Jose Antonio Vargas, the founder of #EmergingUS…
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What are you? #EmergingUS: Exploring race, immigration and the emerging American identity 2016-09-26 How do you describe yourself if you’re mixed? “What are you?” is a common question posed to mixed race people, usually preceded by, “Where are you from, from?” In other words: I can’t tell what you are. In this #EmergingUS video, we explore the…
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White House wants to add new racial category for Middle Eastern people USA Today 2016-10-01 Gregory Korte, White House Reporter WASHINGTON — The White House is putting forward a proposal to add a new racial category for people from the Middle East and North Africa under what would be the biggest realignment of federal racial definitions in…
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Mixed Match documentary explores difficult search for multi-ethnic donors CBC Radio-Canada 2016-10-01 Emotional documentary about mixed-race patients seeking bone marrow, stem cell donors, a call to action It means a lot to film maker Jeff Chiba Stearns to have his new documentary Mixed Match showing at the Vancouver International Film Festival, a multi-cultural city he calls home. Stearns ancestry…
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A space of their own? Yale News 2016-09-21 Noah Kim, Staff Reporter Multiracial students at Yale Haleigh Larson ’18 spent her North Dakotan childhood in a community she characterizes as “almost completely Scandinavian.” She and her two siblings, the adopted children of white parents, are some of the few residents of color in the entire…