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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Paperback Row Book Review The New York Times 2016-04-29 Joumana Khatib Seven new paperbacks to check out this week… …A CHOSEN EXILE: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, by Allyson Hobbs. (Harvard University, $16.95.) People who chose to “pass” were intentionally clandestine and left few clues of their histories, but here, Hobbs, a…
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MixedRaceStudies.org Surpasses 10,000 Posts! MixedRaceStudies.org 2016-05-02 Steven F. Riley, Creator and Founder Silver Spring, Maryland–MixedRaceStudies.org, the a non-commercial website that since 2009, provides the most comprehensive and robust gateway to interdisciplinary English language media about the relevant issues surrounding multiracialism, has now surpassed 10,000 posts. This site has been called by a preeminent scholar, “the most comprehensive…
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The PEN Ten with Mat Johnson PEN American Center 2015-03-17 Randa Jarrar The PEN Ten is PEN America’s weekly interview series. This week, guest editor Randa Jarrar talks with Mat Johnson, the author of Pym and the graphic novel Incognegro. His upcoming novel, Loving Day, will be published by Spiegiel & Grau on May 26.…
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Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America – Book Review National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) 2016-04-04 Shauna Harris Rockquemore, Kerry Ann and David L. Brunsma, Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (Second Edition) (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007). Beyond Black is a groundbreaking study that used both interview and survey data of young black/white…
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The New Jewish Diaspora? Forward 2016-04-28 Sam Kestenbaum Shavei Israel For centuries, world travelers dreamed of finding distant Jewish tribes in the faraway corners of their known world — over the mountains, in remote villages, practicing customs preserved in isolation. Today, a quick Google search will do. In Facebook groups and on Skype, on Whatsapp…
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The Digital Afterlife of Lost Family Photos On Photography The New York Times Magazine 2016-04-26 Teju Cole The backs of found photos from the writer’s “Mrs. X” collection. Credit Jens Mortensen for The New York Times The photographs were Polaroids, taken between the 1970s and the 2000s. Zun Lee bought them at flea markets, at…
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Malia Bouattia’s tactics will define her leadership of NUS Wonkhe: Higher education: policy, people and politics. London, England, United Kingdom 2016-04-26 Debbie McVitty, Director of Policy University of Bedfordshire Last week’s election of Malia Bouattia as the next President of the National Union of Students (NUS) has split the commentariat, with some celebrating the fact…
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The Life and Work of Doctor-Turned-Photographer Zun Lee PetaPixel 2016-02-13 Michael Zhang, Founder & Co-Editor By day, Zun Lee is a doctor in Toronto, Canada. When he’s not working, he’s often unwinding from stress with a camera in hand. As a self-taught photographer, his documentary and street projects have caught the eye of The New…
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Raising mixed race kids Special Broadcasting Service Corporation Melbourne, Australia 2016-04-27 Ian Rose The prospect of a family holiday has Ian Rose reflecting on the pleasures of bringing up mixed-race children, and the responsibility to keep them in touch with both cultures. Let’s get this out there straight away. I am a pom. An unreconstructed,…
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Mizrahi Jews, Jews of Color, and Racial Justice Jewschool: Progressive Jews & Views 2016-04-28 Keren Soffer Sharon Queens, New York As a Mizrahi Jew organizing for justice in my city, I initially questioned whether I had a role to play in the upcoming National Jews of Color Convening. Even though I co-founded the Mizrahi Caucus…