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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The Mestizo State: Reading Race in Modern Mexico University of Minnesota Press June 2012 248 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5637-0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-5636-3 Joshua Lund, Associate Professor of Spanish University of Pittsburgh The Mestizo State examines how the ideas, images, and public discourse around race, nation, and citizen formation have been…
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You don’t have to be mixed-race to have a mixed identity The Seattle Globalist: Where Seattle Meets the World 2013-06-24 Maggie Thorpe, Graduate student in Japan Studies University of Washington Editor’s note: Laura Kina, who is quoted throughout this post, disagrees with the representation of her perspective here. You can read her response in the comments.…
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Guest: The fury over a Cheerios ad and an interracial family The Seattle Times 2013-06-24 Ralina Joseph, Associate Professor of Communication University of Washington The response to a Cheerios TV ad exposes American discomfort with interracial families, writes guest columnist Ralina Joseph A RECENT Cheerios television ad has all of the elements that viewers usually…
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Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World University of Pennsylvania Press November 2013 304 pages 6 x 9; 3 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8122-4551-6 E-book ISBN: 978-0-8122-0873-3 Edited by: Cécile Vidal, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for North American Studies École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris Located at the junction of…
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When Cars Assume Ethnic Identities The New York Times 2013-06-21 Glenn Collins Coming to a showroom near you for 2014: the first sport utility vehicle in its class equipped with a 9-speed automatic transmission. It’s also the first to offer a parallel-parking feature. And, in 4-wheel-drive models, the rear axle disconnects automatically, for fuel efficiency.…
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Body Wellness Study Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 2013-06-22 We would like to invite you to complete a brief online questionnaire investigating wellness and body image in an ethnically diverse population of adult females. The questionnaire can be completed from any computer and will take approximately 15-20 minutes of your time. By participating, you will…
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Library of Congress Appoints Natasha Trethewey To Second Term as U.S. Poet Laureate News from the Library of Congress The Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 2013-06-10 Trethewey Will Launch Project as Part of the PBS NewsHour Poetry Series Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has appointed Natasha Trethewey to serve a second term as U.S.…
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Barack Obama’s “Slave” Ancestor and the Politics of Genealogy George Mason University’s History News Network 2012-08-02 Honor Sachs, Assistant Professor of History Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina On July 30, the New York Times broke a story about the Obama family’s ties to slavery. Not Michelle Obama. Her family connection to slavery has been…
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What’s it like to “come out” as a Third Culture Kid on stage? Elizabeth Liang tells all! The Displaced Nation: A home for international creatives 2013-06-20 The Displaced Nation Team As reported here last month, Elizabeth Liang spent the month of May performing, at a venue in Los Angeles, a one-woman show about being a…