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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Category: Literary/Artistic Criticism
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Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture Duke University Press 1998 272 pages 13 b&w photographs Cloth ISBN: 0-8223-2105-X, ISBN13: 978-0-8223-2105-7 Paperback ISBN: 0-8223-2120-3, ISBN13 978-0-8223-2120-0 Jennifer DeVere Brody, Professor, African and African American Studies Duke University Using black feminist theory and African American studies to read Victorian culture, Impossible Purities looks at the construction…
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Biracial Identity in the Media Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2008-05-22 18 Pages Iliana Rucker University of New Mexico Many scholars have studied racial representations and have determined that images of racial groups we see on television shape the way we view these racial groups (Gorham, 1999; Tamborini &…
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Miscegenating the Discourse: Mixed Race Asian American Art and Literature Jessica Hagedorn In Conversation with Wei Ming and Laura Kina As part of The President’s Signature Series 2009-2010 2009-10-22 at 18:00 CDT (Local Time) DePaul University Art Museum 2350 N Kenmore This event is co-sponsored by Asian American Studies, The Cultural Center, English, The President’s…
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Political Discourse on Racial Mixture: American Newspapers, 1865 to 1970 Paper presented at the annual meeting of the MPSA Annual National Conference Palmer House Hotel Hilton, Chicago, IL 2008-04-03 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government & Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University Brenna Marea Powell Harvard University Vesla Weaver,…
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‘The Nephew’ and ‘The Front Line’: black and mixed masculinities in Irish Cinema Old Ireland, New Irish: ‘The same people living in the same place’: American Conference for Irish Studies 2009 ‘Into the heartland of the ordinary’: Second Galway Conference of Irish Studies 2009 Hosted by Centre for Irish Studies National University of Ireland, Galway…
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Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. For some writers, artists, and filmmakers, these images provided an alternative to the stereotypes of black womanhood and a challenge to the color line. For others, they represented key aspects of modernity and race coding central to…
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Representations of the Black Body in Mexican Visual Art: Evidence of an African Historical Presence or a Cultural Myth? Journal of Black Studies Volume 39, Number 5 (May 2009) pages 761-785 DOI: 10.1177/0021934707301474 Wendy E. Phillips, Photographer Atlanta, GA Although Africans have been present in Mexico since the time of the Afro-Atlantic slave trade, the…
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Barriers between Us: Interracial Sex in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Indiana University Press 2004-10-12 160 pages 1 bibliog., 1 index, 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21733-2; ISBN: 0-253-21733-4 Cassandra Jackson, Professor of English The College of New Jersey This provocative book examines the representation of characters of mixed African and European descent in the works of…
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Genealogy of the formation of race and gender hierarchies in the U.S.
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Mixed Heritage in Young Adult Literature is a critical exploration of how mixed-heritage characters (those of mixed race, ethnicity, religion, and/or adoption) and real-life people have been portrayed in young adult fiction and nonfiction.