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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Not-So-Solid South Triton University of California, San Diego Alumni 2016-05-05 Sherilyn Reus ’16 Historian Victoria Bynum, M.A. ’79, Ph.D. ’87, is a Civil War myth-buster. Folklore is deeply embedded in American culture—whether told at the dinner table, around the campfire or just before bedtime, tall tales and legends about the nation’s history have the power…
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Understanding the Stressors and Types of Discrimination That Can Affect Multiracial Individuals: Things to Address and Avoid in Psychotherapy Practice Psychotherapy Bulletin Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy Volume 50, Issue 2 (2015) pages 56-60 Astrea Greig, PsyD As the multiracial population is vastly growing in the United States (Humes, Jones, & Ramirez, 2011), it…
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Inspired By — A Q&A With Actor-Writer-Producer Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni Goldstar Pulse 2016-05-27 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni is creator and star of One Drop of Love, a solo show co-produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. She’s a spokesperson on the arts and racial identity, a board member of Mixed Roots Stories, and…
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New Orleans II: the Halloween Ghost Post The History Tourist 2015-10-31 Susan Kalasunas My first chance to encounter a ghost at the Bourbon Orleans Hotel in New Orleans came not long after check-in. “Can we see the ballroom?” I asked the receptionist. “Yes. We don’t have an event tonight, but the doors should be open.…
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Tales of African-American History Found in DNA The New York Times 2016-05-27 Carl Zimmer The history of African-Americans has been shaped in part by two great journeys. The first brought hundreds of thousands of Africans to the southern United States as slaves. The second, the Great Migration, began around 1910 and sent six million African-Americans…
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LA poets document the city in ‘Coiled Serpent’ anthology Los Angeles Daily News 2016-03-25 Richard Guzman, Arts and Entertainment Reporter Long Beach Press Telegram As students take part in a guitar workshop inside his Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore in Sylmar, Los Angeles Poet Laureate Luis Rodriguez grabs a copy of the latest book…