Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
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- 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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Identical twins, Georgia and Bessi, live in the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue. It is a place of beanbags, nectarines and secrets, and visitors must always knock before entering. Down below there is not such harmony.
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Catherine Johnson, in her recent novel for the young adult audience, The Curious Tale of the Lady Caraboo, clearly does know what it is like to be a woman, and she shows in her eponymous character a vulnerable, poor, mixed race girl in Britain’s early 19th century who rises above the situation in which she…
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Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2016, this is a very curious tale indeed . . .
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Creative Producer, Passing by Indigo Griffiths Arts Jobs Arts Council England March 2018 Closes: 2018-03-26 Location: London, England Type: Part-Time Salary: Paid (£10k-15k pro rata) Artform: Theater Contact: Gemma Aked-Priestley and Indigo Griffiths Description Chicago. 1941. Joey, John and Eliza are siblings but their lives are about to take different paths. Joey is embracing the…
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The magazine’s April issue, “The Race Issue,” promises to reckon with an editorial history it describes precisely as “racist.”
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Walter Tull – one of England’s first black professional footballers – should be awarded a Military Cross 100 years after his death, says Tottenham MP David Lammy.
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“I see people flinch with surprise as I nurse my son in public, and I wonder whether they think I’m a hired wet nurse.”
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Being ascribed an identity that doesn’t belong to you is an odd experience. It makes you doubt how you act and whether you see yourself vastly differently to the way others see you.