Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- 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.
about
Category: Literary/Artistic Criticism
-
Review of Adult Supervision at Park Theatre Finsbury Park LondonTheater1.com London 2013-10-20 Alan Franks, Senior Reviewer Adult supervision, if you remember, is what Barack Obama said Washington needed. This was back in 2006, two years before his election as forty-fourth president of the US, and the first black incumbent of the office. So there could…
-
Scientific Racism and the Emergence of the Homosexual Body Journal of the History of Sexuality Volume 5, Number 2 (October, 1994) pages 243-266 Siobhan Somerville, Associate Professor University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign One of the most important insights developed in the fields of lesbian and gay history and the history of sexuality has been the notion…
-
Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896–1937 by Julia H. Lee (review) Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 16, Number 3, October 2013 pages 340-342 DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2013.0025 Caroline H. Yang, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, English University of Illinois, Chicago Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures,…
-
Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “From the Conservation of Races to the Cosmic Race” Seminar Series: Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective University of California, Merced California Room 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, California 95343 2013-10-23, 10:30 PDT (Local Time) Juliet Hooker, Associate Professor of Government University of Texas, Austin The Mexican philosopher José…
-
Racial Passing in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Philip Roth’s The Human Stain A Vertentes Universidade Federal de São João del Rei Volume 19, Number 2 13 pages Maria Luiza Cardoso de Aguiar Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais The so-called racial passing is defined, mainly, as a phenomenon through which…
-
When Ethnic Ambiguity Becomes a Privilege SunDryed Affairs 2011-06-08 Wendell Hassan Marsh Taking a look at recent box office results, it is the ethnically ambiguous star and ambiguously ethnic films that appear to be making bank. Ambiguity reaches around and hugs the color line while supporting the weight of overlapping identities. It’s not a question…
-
Deconstructing the Mixed-Race Experience of Passing California State University, San Marcos May 2006 172 pages Victoria Baldo Segall A Thesis Submitted for Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Literature and Writing Studies In “Beauty and the Beast: On Racial Ambiguity” Carla Bradshaw describes passing as an attempt to…
-
Complicating Constructions: Race, Ethnicity, Hybridity in American Texts University of Washington Press 2007-06-15 352 pages notes, bibliog., index 6 x 9 in. Paperback ISBN: 9780295988351 Hardcover ISBN-10: 0295986816; ISBN-13: 978-0295986814 eBook ISBN: 9780295800745 Edited by David S. Goldstein, Senior Lecturer, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences University of Washington, Bothell Audrey B. Thacker, Lecturer in…
-
Never-Ending Story The New York Times 2013-09-27 A. O. Scott, Chief Film Critic ‘Conversation About Race’ Has Not Brought Cultural Consensus The “conversation about race” that public figures periodically claim to desire, the one that is always either about to happen or is being prevented from happening, has been going on, at full volume, at…