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
- 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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Controversial Hire Won’t Serve as Dartmouth’s Native American Program Director Valley News White River Junction, Vermont 2015-10-02 Rob Wolfe, Valley News Staff Writer Susan Taffe Reed stepped down as director of Dartmouth’s Native American Program. (Dartmouth College – Eli Burakian) Hanover — Dartmouth College officials said Thursday that the school’s new Native American Program director…
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‘One Drop of Love’ The Sophian: The Independent Newspaper of Smith College Northampton, Massachusetts 2015-09-24 Eliza Going, Contributing Writer Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni performed her well-known one-woman play challenging the construct of race, “One Drop of Love,” on Sept. 18 and 19 in the Hallie Flanagan Studio Theatre. In this show, she not only tells the…
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These are the beautiful, complex Blaxicans of Los Angeles Fusion 2015-09-24 Jorge Rivas, National Affairs Correspondent Back when Walter Thompson-Hernandez was in graduate school, his friends and family would give him blank stares as he explained what he was studying. Finally, in an effort to make his work more accessible, he started an Instagram account…
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Review: Trevor Noah Keeps ‘Daily Show’ DNA in Debut The New York Times 2015-09-29 James Poniewozik, Television Critic The post-Jon Stewart version of “The Daily Show” that Trevor Noah and Comedy Central unveiled on Monday night was a bit like a new iPhone. It was sleeker, fresher and redesigned. There were tweaks here and there…
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For most of the history of the United States, the racial categorization of mixed black/white persons was illogical and often contradictory (Sollors, “Introduction” 6). Generally speaking, people with any percentage of black ancestry were most commonly classified simply as black (according to the “one-drop rule” imposed by whites), and, at times, recognized as a separate…
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Mixed-race students struggle to find their identity The Daily Pennsylvanian Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2015-09-28 Elizabeth Winston Many students seem to effortlessly fit into cultural groups at Penn [University of Pennsylvania], but for some, it’s more complicated than simply choosing one. For mixed-race students, finding racial or cultural groups to identify with can be more of a…