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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From ‘blood quantum’ to multiracial bill of rights, Dolezal saga ignites talk of identity The Seattle Times 2015-06-17 Nina Shapiro, Seattle Times staff reporter The endless fascination with the Rachel Dolezal story reveals our hunger to talk about racial identity in all its complexity. When Amanda Erekson was in her early 20s, a friend introduced…
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Pets, Playmates, Pedagogues (From Chapter Four of Oreo) The Offing: A Los Angeles Review of Books Channel 2015-07-06 Fran Ross Oreo, Fran Ross’s ground-breaking satire, was originally published in 1974. It is being re-issued this week by New Directions, with an introduction by Danzy Senna and a foreword by Harryette Mullen. Mat Johnson of NPR…
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It’s official: Latinos now outnumber whites in California The Los Angeles Times 2015-07-08 Javier Panzar Source: The Los Angeles Times The demographers agreed: At some point in 2014, Latinos would pass whites as the largest ethnic group in California. Determining when exactly that milestone would occur was more of a tricky question. Counting people isn’t…
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The Divine Auditor Prarie Schooner: Stories, Poems, Essays, and Reviews since 1926 Volume 87, Issue 2 (2013 Summer) Sarah Valentine, Visiting Assistant Professor of English Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois It is still dark when my cell phone begins to buzz. When I flip it open, my mother’s voice comes through a connection often interrupted by…
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Q & A with Ana Carolina Vidal + her Afro-Futuristic project Rooted In Magazine 2015-07-08 Annina Chirade O Mestiço Revisited II, Ana Carolina Vidal São Paulo native, Ana Carolina Vidal, is a multi-racial Brazilian artist who explores the dynamics of her country through her art. Her work is largely focused on portraiture; each piece in…
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Reclaiming Jewish Identity: An Aboriginal People of the Middle East The Huffington Post 2015-06-07 Binyamin Arazi Starting this September, after decades of lobbying efforts by Arab-American organizations, the United States Census Bureau will begin testing a new category for Americans of Middle Eastern and North African origin. In conjunction with this new listing, no less…
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Is it ’cause I’m not black? moniquerants: Education Lover. Discoverer of Healthy Eating. Headphone Raver. Opinionated Ranter. 2015-07-06 Monique Bell Years of mistaken identity and assumed whiteness have understandably left me with a miniature chip on my shoulder, and what better way to deal with that chip than writing to the world about it? In…