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
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- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
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- 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: Articles
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With her BBC series about to air, academic and broadcaster Emma Dabiri spoke to Donal Lynch
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Within the context of America’s slave society, such relations as that described by the star — and the larger system of cohabitation and concubinage, or involuntary monogamous sexual relations, in which they existed — have been the subject of much study by historians.
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I researched my ancestry recently and learned that I come from a slave owner who fell in love with and married a slave. I had to process that revelation over time. I questioned what it meant and tried to put it into perspective. I now believe it’s why God blessed me with my twins.
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Mixed Feelings
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I’m considering launching a podcast called “Two or More,” focusing on issues that multiracial Americans and their families face as the country’s racial and ethnic makeup becomes increasingly diverse. Above all, I want to learn about and tell the stories of other multiracial individuals like myself.
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From character to character, Genevieve Gaignard undergoes significant but not quite Shermanian transformations; each portrait hinges in part on her ability to cross legible boundaries.
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Mixed race identity is complicated, to say the least.
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EXCLUSIVE: Rebecca Hall has set up “Passing,” an adaptation based on Nella Larsen’s 1920s Harlem Renaissance novel that explores the practice of racial passing, a term used for a person classified as a member of one racial group who seeks to be accepted by a different racial group.
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In her first New York show, the artist creates unexpected characters that defy stereotypes.