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
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- 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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The Gains and Losses of Passing for White – Ernest Torregano Creolegen 2015-05-31 Jari Honora, Founder and Consultant In 1912, Ernest Joseph Torregano, a thirty-year old New Orleans native, was a porter on the Southern Pacific Railroad. For about three years, Torregano had worked the run from New Orleans to San Francisco. After each successful…
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10 Afro-Puerto Ricans Everyone Should Know La Respuesta: A magazine to (Re)Imagine Boricua Diaspora 2015-06-03 La Respuesta magazine is dedicated to both resurrecting lost history and highlighting marginalized communities within our “gran familia puertorriqueña”. Afrodescendientes boricuas is one such community, who are, at best – forgotten or ignored – and at worst – exoticized, feared,…
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University of Salford installs new Chancellor, Professor Jackie Kay MBE University of Salford Salford, United Kingdom Friday, 2015-05-01 The University celebrated the official installation of it’s sixth Chancellor, renowned poet Professor Jackie Kay MBE, at a grand ceremony in Peel Hall on Wednesday 29 April 2015. Jackie Kay MBE was formally initiated in a ceremony…
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University of Salford officially appoints renowned poet Professor Jackie Kay as their new chancellor
University of Salford officially appoints renowned poet Professor Jackie Kay as their new chancellor Manchester Evening News Manchester, England 2015-05-09 Charlotte Dobson, Social Affairs Reporter Prof Jackie Kay MBE appointed as the Chancellor of the University of Salford Professor Jackie Kay MBE was formally initiated at a ceremony attended by fellow celebrated writer Jeanette Winterson…
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I had always understood my ancestry to be a tangle of African slaves, free men of color, French and Spanish immigrants, British colonists, Native Americans—but in what proportion?
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Why You Can Kiss My Mulatto Ass BuzzFeed 2015-05-26 Mat Johnson, BuzzFeed Contributor “The recent re-emergence of mulatto identity isn’t about race, it’s about actively acknowledging a multiethnic reality in a simplistically racialized world.” Yo, I’m a mulatto. And I have to tell you, it’s great. I was black for most of my life, which…
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“You get a cookie for being offended”: Mat Johnson on the fine art of racial satire Salon 2015-05-24 Laura Miller The author of “Pym” talks about his new novel, his love-hate relationship with Twitter and being a black nerd Mat Johnson is a little apprehensive about his new novel, “Loving Day,” a satire of race…
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Schools for European and Eurasian children in India: Making of the official policy in colonial India and its contemporary significance Policy Futures in Education Volume 13, Number 3 (April 2015) pages 315-327 DOI: 10.1177/1478210315569040 Heeral Chhabra, M.Phil Research Scholar Department of History University of Delhi, India The history of education in India has been looked…
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How A Latina-Asian American Ascended Amazon’s Ranks NBC News 2015-05-29 Stephen A. Nuño, Associate Professor of Politics & International Affairs Northern Arizona Univeristy If you have ever bought anything from the online retail giant, Amazon.com, you probably didn’t know that a multicultural woman is one of the managers leading the work behind the scenes with…
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Mystery, and Discovery, on the Trail of a Creole Music Pioneer The New York Times 2015-05-28 Campbell Robertson, Southern correspondent PINEVILLE, La. — Somewhere among the thousands beneath a grassy hill here lies the body of Amédé Ardoin. He was singular in life: one of the greatest accordion players ever to come out of south…