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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In an exclusive interview, Rachel Dolezal discusses growing up on a Christian homestead, painting her face different colors as a child, and why she’s naming her new baby after Langston Hughes.
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Maya Rudolph: ‘I’m not a woman in comedy. I’m a comedian’ The Guardian 2015-12-05 Tom Lamont She’s been a Saturday Night Live regular for years, with her hilarious celebrity send-ups, and she hit the global bigtime as the bride in Bridesmaids. So why is Maya Rudolph now playing nasty? Inside a hot studio, on a…
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The Dougla View: The Taye Diggs Mixed Son Controversy Just Analise: Exploring and Embracing Authenticity in Life, Culture + Business 2015-12-06 Analise Kandasammy In case you missed it, about a month ago, African-American actor, Taye Diggs caused an uproar all over cyberspace when during an interview he explained how he would hate for his son…
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Revealed: How Britons welcomed black soldiers during WWII, and fought alongside them against racist GIs The Telegraph 2015-12-06 Patrick Sawer, Senior Reporter This was no ordinary Saturday night punch-up outside a pub. At the height of World War Two, with the country gripped in a life or death fight for freedom against fascism and dictatorship,…
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Mixed Like Us: How to Support Biracial Children and Their Shifting Identities Literatigurl 2015-12-01 Kimberly Cooper The year was 2002. I’d just landed in Tucson, AZ to present my graduate school research on the “Social Perceptions of Multiracial Children” at the first-ever National Conference on the Multiracial Child in the United States. Hundreds of teachers,…
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Kansas City Artist Shane Evans, Co-Author Taye Diggs Demystify Mixed-Race Families In New Book KCUR 89.3 Kansas City, Missouri 2015-12-04 Laura Ziegler, Special Correspondent Shane Evans at KCUR studios to talk about illustrating new children’s book (Laura Ziegler KCUR) Kansas City artist Shane Evans was raised by a mother and father whose racial and cultural…
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Parents (of multiracial kids) Just Don’t Understand AsAmNews 2015-12-03 Alice Wong Talking about race is complicated enough but how do parents of multiracial Asian American children talk to their kids about race and racial identity? What are the experiences of multiracial Asian American children? What’s missing in the media representations of multiracial kids? Writer, scholar…