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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William Makepeace Thackeray: Racist? OUPblog: Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World 2011-07-18 John Sutherland, Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus of Modern English Literature University College, London We can never know the Victorians as well as they knew themselves. Nor–however well we annotate our texts–can we read Victorian novels as responsively as Victorians read…
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Appointment of new Chancellor University of Salford, Manchester News 2014-10-17 The distinguished award-winning writer of fiction, poetry and plays, Jackie Kay MBE, has been appointed as our new Chancellor. Jackie, who takes up the position immediately, takes over from the University’s previous Chancellor, Dr Irene Khan who stepped down earlier this year after her five-year…
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Award-winning author and poet Jackie Kay appointed as University of Salford’s new chancellor Manchester Evening News Manchester, England 2014-10-19 Dean Kirby Jackie Kay MBE succeeds Dr Irene Khan at the University of Salford, who stepped down earlier this year after her five-year term came to an end An award-winning writer of fiction, poetry and plays…
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Race and the Making of Family in the Atlantic World University of North Carolina, Wilmington Burney Center 601 S. College Road Wilmington, North Carolina Thursday, 2014-10-23, 19:30 EDT (Local Time) Daniel Livesay, Assistant Professor of History Drury University, Springfield, Missouri In the eighteenth-century world of slavery and the slave trade, racial prejudices were often stark…
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Who Do You Think You Are? Reggie Yates [with Reggie Yates] Who Do You Think You Are? BBC One Series 11: Episode 8 of 10 Running Time: 00:59:09 First Aired: 2014-09-25 Presenter and DJ Reggie Yates grew up knowing very little about his father’s side of the family. Reggie sets out on the trail of…
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Drury professor honored for research on mixed-race families Springfield News-Leader Springfield, Missouri 2014-10-12 Kaleigh Jurgensmeyer Drury University Dan Livesay, assistant history professor at Drury University, has been named the Sherman Emerging Scholar for 2014. Livesay will travel to the University of North Carolina-Wilmington next week to deliver a public lecture about his research, speak in…
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Tangled Roots: A Performance of Real-Life Stories Celebrating Mixed Race Families Trinity Centre Trinity Road Bristol, England BS2 0NW 2014-10-19, 14:00-20:00 BST (Local Time) Free life-writing workshop and performance with Dr Katy Massey – part of our Black History Month programme On Sunday 19 October, Tangled Roots are staging a live workshop and performance event…
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Miranda Kaufmann Lecture ‘Africans in Port Towns – 1500-1640’ University of Greenwich Queen Anne 180 – Greenwich Campus Greenwich, England Wednesday, 2014-10-15, 18:00-19:00 BST (Local Time) Dr. Miranda Kaufmann will explore the lives of Africans in 16th and 17th century England and Scotland’s port towns, explaining how they arrived in Britain and how they were…
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At Least We Talk About Race in the USA: Zadie Smith on Writing, Race and Color My American Meltingpot: A Multi-Culti Mix of Identity Politics, Parenting & Pop Culture 2014-09-22 Lori L. Tharps, Associate Professor of Journalism Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania …Last week Wednesday I skipped out of work as early as possible so I…