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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Kathleen López: Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History New Books in Latin American Studies: Discussions with Scholars of Latin America about Their New Books 2014-11-21 Alejandra Bronfman, Associate Professor of History University of British Columbia, Canada Successive waves of migration brought thousands of Chinese laborers to Cuba over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The coolie trade,…
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How a biracial woman grew up thinking she was white Vox 2014-11-19 Jenée Desmond-Harris When Lacey Schwartz was accepted to Georgetown University, the school saw her photo and passed her name along to the black student association. The organization contacted her. The only issue: Schwartz had grown up in a Jewish household in Woodstock New…
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Who You Really Are GeneWatch Council for Responsible Genetics Volume 27, Issue 2 (May-July 2014) Robert Pollack, Professor of Biological Sciences, Earth Institute Professor, Adjunct Professor of Religion, Lecturer in Psychiatry Columbia University, New York, New York Patricia Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia University, New York, New York “International Biosciences offer a broad…
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Go Stand Upon The Rock with Samuel Michael Lemon, Ed.D. Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2014-11-20, 21:00 EST (Friday, 2014-11-21, 02:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Go Stand Upon the Rock (2014) is a deeply moving Civil War-era novel based on stories handed down by Sam Lemon’s grandmother about the lives of…
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At its optimistic best, America has embraced its identity as the world’s melting pot. Today it is on the cusp of becoming a country with no racial majority, and new minorities are poised to exert a profound impact on U.S. society, economy, and politics.
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What is a White Man? The Independent Volume 41 (1889-05-30) pages 5-6 Source: The Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive Charles W. Chesnutt, Esq. The fiat having gone forth from the wise men of the South that the “all-pervading, all-conquering Anglo-Saxon race” must continue forever to exercise exclusive control and direction of the government of this so-called…
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The Case for Black With a Capital B The New York Times 2014-11-18 Lori L. Tharps, Associate Professor of Journalism Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA — I WAS sitting in my office at Temple University when I overheard an exchange between a colleague and his student. The student had come to see her professor to…
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‘Empire of Sin,’ by Gary Krist The New York Times Sunday Book Review 2014-11-06 Walter Isaacson, President and CEO Aspen Institute Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans By Gary Krist; Illustrated. 416 pp. Crown Publishers. $26. When Tom Anderson’s saloon opened in 1901, at the…