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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Author: Steven
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The children, who came to be known by the British press as the nation’s “Brown Babies”, grew up in post-war Britain
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“My mother’s from Detroit and her father was African American and passed for white his whole life. When I read the book, it clicked into place: obviously that’s what my grandfather did — for his family, his children’s life.”
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In Fanny Hurst’s novel, Delilah’s daughter dreams of working in white restaurants, achieves her dream of passing and marries a white man before escaping America and her identity. In the 1934 movie as well as Sirk’s version Delilah/Annie’s daughter doesn’t get away so cleanly. Rick McGinnis, “Leave Them Wanting More: Douglas Sirk and Imitation of…
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Race Off: The fantasy of race transformation The Yale Review 2021-09-27 Namwali Serpell, Professor of English Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Genevieve Gaignard, People Make the World Go Round, 2019. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer. Courtesy the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles. This essay was first delivered in September 2021 as the Finzi-Contini Lecture at Yale University’s Whitney…
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The shift comes as the Biden administration pressures Native tribes in Oklahoma to desegregate their constitutions to comply with treaty obligations.
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The author’s new novel looks at the history of a Black family in central Georgia
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Participants needed for study on mixed-race identity Newcastle UniversityNewcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom2021-10-04 Heather Proctor Do you identify as mixed-race? If you: Are aged 18-30 Broadly identify as mixed Black/white or mixed Asian/white Were predominantly raised in the United Kingdom Would you like to take part in an interview and focus group exploring the relationship…
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Professor of English University of Oklahoma, Norman The 2020 National Book Award–nominated poet makes her fiction debut with this magisterial epic—an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing; Sing, Unburied, Sing; and The Water Dancer—that chronicles the journey of one American family, from the centuries of the…