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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Working against this reductive reflex, this essay reads James Weldon Johnson’s 1912 novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man as a serious exploration of biracial identity and experience.
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Paisley Rekdal is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor of West: A Translation, as well as the community web projects Mapping Literary Utah and Mapping Salt Lake City. In May 2017, she was named Utah’s Poet Laureate and received a 2019 Academy of American Poets’…
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This pioneering examination of an important symbol in popular literature of the last century opens up a previously unexplored repository of attitudes toward American civilization. An important book for all those concerned with the course of American culture and literature.
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This is the latest entry in my Spiritual Eugenics project, which explores the overlap between eugenics and New Age spirituality.
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he key question posed herein is: What forms of privilege enable a reader to relinquish her attachment to paranoia, suspicion, and vigilance; to opt for openness rather than guardedness, submission rather than aggression (21)? Narratives of racial passing provide one answer to that question.
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Uncovering Family Secrets: Forming a New Identity Los Angeles Public Library Blog Los Angeles Public Library Los Angeles, California 2022-03-07 Janice Batzdorff, Librarian Imagine discovering that the man who raised you is not your biological father. That your mother’s race differs from how she presented herself. That the person you are attracted to is your…
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Historicizing Race Bloomsbury Academic (an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing) 2018-02-22 200 pages 9 x 6 inches Hardback ISBN: 9781441184245 Paperback ISBN: 9781441143679 Ebook (Epub & Mobi) ISBN: 9781441158246 Ebook (PDF) ISBN: 9781441180162 Marius Turda, Professor in 20th Century Central and Eastern European Biomedicine Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom Maria Sophia Quine, Senior Research Fellows…
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Charles’s interweaving of the historical and the literary is a welcome addition to this growing field of passing studies.