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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Tessa Souter is known as a New York City singer-songwriter, but her biography runs much deeper. She’s taken a few detours on her way to the jazz clubs.
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Irish Immigrants and the Underground Railroad Medium 2015-07-02 Liam Hogan A Ride for Liberty — The Fugitive Slaves, oil on paperboard, ca. 1862, Brooklyn Museum But the Irish are indeed a strange people. How varied their aspect — how contradictory their character. William Wells Brown (1852) What William Wells Brown should have said was “the Irish are human.” The…
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Meet this year’s outstanding contributors at The Globies! The Seattle Globalist 2015-07-17 Christina Twu, Editor/Contributor The Seattle Globalist is proud to recognize three brilliant Globalist writers that have made outstanding contributions to our publication this year, helping to grow our coverage and make 2015 a phenomenal year for us. Please join us in recognizing these…
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The “Telling Part”: Reimagining Racial Recognition in Jackie Kay’s Adoptee Search Narratives Contemporary Women’s Writing Volume 9, Issue 2 (July 2015) pages 277-296 DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpu041 Pamela Fox, Professor of English Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. This article examines Jackie Kay’s earliest and renowned autobiographical poetic text, The Adoption Papers (1991), in relation to her latest narrative…
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In The Writer’s Room, One Woman Quietly Makes Late Night History Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-07-12 Eric Deggans, TV Critic How do you write jokes for a TV comedy about race and culture when there are riots over how police treat black suspects, and a gunman just shot…