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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#myLovingDay: How the Lovings’ trials paved the way for today’s multiracial families The Los Angeles Times 2016-06-03 Michelle Maltais Mildred and Richard Loving, convicted in Virginia of marrying while interracial. (Associated Press) I like to say that I am because of Loving. Mildred and Richard Loving. In the early 1970s when my parents met, the…
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Book Review: Mixed-race youth and schooling: the fifth minority Ethnic and Racial Studies Published online: 2016-06-01 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2016.1190852 Remi Joseph-Salisbury University of Leeds Mixed-race youth and schooling: the fifth minority, by Sandra Winn Tutwiler, Abingdon, Routledge, 2016, xv + 241 pp., £29.95 (paperback), ISBN-13 978-1138021938 Mixed-race youth and schooling offers a welcome contribution to a sparse…
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Philanthropy, Jobs for African Youth, Racial Passing Top of Mind with Julie Rose BYU Radio 2016-05-25 Julie Rose, Host …Racial Passing (52:22) Guest: Allyson Hobbs, PhD, Assistant Professor of American History at Stanford University, Author of “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life.” A 1949 film called “Lost Boundaries” tells the…
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James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. James Boggs was the son of an Alabama sharecropper who came to Detroit during the Great Migration, becoming an automobile worker and a union leader. Grace Lee was a Chinese American scholar who studied…
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Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community University of Washington Press June 2016 176 pages 1 bandw illus, 2 tables 6 x 9 in Paperback ISBN: 9780295998503 Hardcover ISBN: 9780295998077 Andrew J. Jolivette, Professor and chair of American Indian studies San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California The first book to…
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Dancer, painter, soldier … Tottenham brothers on their way to the top The Guardian 2016-05-28 Jessica Elgot From left to right, Solomon, Kidane and Amartey … ‘We are fiercely proud – we didn’t feel like these institutions were worlds away.’ Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian Maryam Golding’s three oldest sons – an artist, a…
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The idea of “blackness” was a European invention, designed to legitimize the oppression of Africans.
“Most people think that it’s obvious that races are real biological categories. However, most of the scholars who study race think that races are invented categories. When one group of people sets out to oppress another, they “racialize” them—that is, they think of them as fundamentally different from and, importantly, inferior to themselves. Prior to…