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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White Negroes Guy Foster, Assistant Professor of English Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine Africana Studies/Gender and Women’s Studies Spring 2013 Close readings of literary and filmic texts that interrogate widespread beliefs in the fixity of racial categories and the broad assumptions these beliefs often engender. Investigates “whiteness” and “blackness” as unstable and fractured ideological constructs. These…
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Interracial Narratives Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine Africana Studies Fall 2012 Guy Foster, Assistant Professor of English Examines the stories that Americans have told about intimate relationships that cross the color line in twentieth- and twenty-first-century imaginative and theoretical texts. Considers how these stories have differed according to whether the participants are heterosexual or homosexual, men…
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Afro-Asian Encounters: Reading Comparative American Racial Experiences Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine Africana Studies/Asian Studies Spring 2013 Wendy Thompson Taiwo, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies Surveys a breadth of historical and contemporary encounters between African Americans and Asian Americans in the United States. Begins with the earliest waves of Asian immigration in the…
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Faces In Between Daniels Spectrum 585 Dundas Street East Toronto, Ontario Friday, 2013-02-01, 19:00-21:00 EST (Local Time) A 3MW Collective art Exhibit at Regent Park Arts and Cultural Centre during Black History Month exploring mixed race identity through painting and photography. Join us to celebrate our first show as a collective! Cash bar and amazing…
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Study Links Highly Segregated Counties and Lung Cancer Deaths in Blacks The New York Times 2013-01-16 Sabrina Tavernise African-Americans who live in highly segregated counties are considerably more likely to die from lung cancer than those in counties that are less segregated, a new study has found. The study was the first to look at…
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Peggy Pascoe’s What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America and the Use of Legal History to Police Social Boundaries Michigan State Law Review Volume 2011, Issue 1 (2011) pages 255-261 Kristin Hass, Associate Professor of American Studies University of Michigan “‘Being black is not the only reason why some people…
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“Am I Black? Hell Yeah!” (1)ne Drop Project Journal 2013-01-16 Billy Calloway “You make sure to keep a bonnet on that boy’s head. We don’t need to tip off the sales agent that a Black family is moving in.” This was the first story I remember being told to me by my dad. My father…