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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Category: United Kingdom
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“Black Tommies” is the first book entirely dedicated to the part played by soldiers of African descent in the British regular army during the First World War.
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Early in her career she created brightly colored scenes of black middle-class domestic life. Her later work was increasingly personal and experimental.
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“Jamaica Ladies” is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire.
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The author of “Don’t Touch My Hair” — which illustrates the oppressive hair journey that black people have been on — wants to put an end to the discriminatory behaviour surrounding afro hair. Here, she unpicks her own experience and delves into the stigmatisation still held within society.
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BBC One will adapt Kit de Waal’s novel “My Name is Leon” (Simon & Schuster) into a film.
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From newspaper stories disdaining her every behavior, despite having lauded some of the same actions when White British Royals like Kate Middleton did them, to a reporter literally comparing her newborn son to a monkey, the British media has been unconscionable toward the Duchess of Sussex.
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In eighteenth–century Jamaica, who counted as a British subject? As Brooke N. Newman demonstrates in her impressively researched new book, the answer was complicated.
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This international conference, the first on Kay’s work, brings together scholars from a wide range of literary and cultural studies.