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
- Loving Across Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health Conference
- 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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Natasha Marshall gives an impassioned performance in a semi-autobiographical show, writes Veronica Lee
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A white identity was constructed for me 25 years ago and unravelling it feels like a Sisyphean task
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I still have yet to uncover the full truth behind my heritage, but now feel that living in a racial no man’s land can actually be fun
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Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning cultural critic Margo Jefferson discusses her compelling life story with Scotland’s Makar, the poet and novelist Jackie Kay.
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New insights on an important Native American writer
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The dynamic frontwoman talks production values, the ‘ugly beautiful’, and why being in ‘the band that almost made it’ is the best thing ever
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In 1894, Ida Platt became the first African-American woman lawyer in Illinois. She was one of only five black women lawyers in the country and the only one able to maintain a law practice.