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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The first black woman to win the Booker prize argues that a revolution is sweeping through British publishing. But can it lead to lasting change?
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My Welsh mother met my father during the war. From childhood, I have grown to dread the question: ‘Where are you from?’
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“Mixed” reactions highlight mixed-race issues in the US and the UK.
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Kamal Ahmed’s childhood was very ‘British’ in every way – except for the fact that he was brown. Half English, half Sudanese, he was raised at a time when being mixed-race meant being told to go home, even when you were born just down the road.
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An account of how a young black girl, growing up in South London, had to learn to negotiate the racial fictions of post World War Two Britain, drawn from Dr. Carby’s forthcoming book, “Imperial Intimacies” (Verso 2019).
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Science journalist and author Angela Saini tackled the question of why science continues to be plagued by ideas of race.
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In “Imperial Intimacies,” Hazel Carby weaves together the story of colonialism and the story of her family.