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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A Look At People’s ‘Race Experience’ In NC WUNC 91.5, North Carolina Public Radio 2015-05-15 Charlie Shelton, Digital News Producer We recently released a survey asking people about their experience with race in North Carolina. The responses ranged from personal stories on race’s influence in daily interactions to how race is affecting public opinion. From…
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Black Miss Japan fights for race revolution’ Agence France Presse (via Yahoo) 2015-05-12 Alastair Himmer, Sport and Lifestyle Correspondent Ariana Miyamoto Tokyo (AFP) – Ariana Miyamoto entered the Miss Universe Japan beauty contest after a mixed-race friend committed suicide. And she endured abuse after winning the crown because of her skin colour. Far from being…
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Movie about Va.’s now-defunct ban on interracial marriage to be shot in state The Washington Post 2014-05-14 Laura Vozzella, Richmond Bureau Reporter RICHMOND — Virginia has landed a movie project about Richard and Mildred Loving, the real-life Virginia couple arrested in 1958 for violating the state’s interracial marriage ban. The Lovings filed a lawsuit that…
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The Challenge of Mixed-Blood Nations Indian Country Today Media Network 2015-04-25 Duane Champagne, Professor of Sociology and American Indian Studies; Professor of Law University of California, Los Angeles Countries with indigenous nations usually also have mixed-blood nations composed of people of indigenous descent and other nations or races. In an increasingly shrinking world where ethnicity…
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No Charges for Wisconsin Officer in Killing of Unarmed Black Teenager The New York Times 2015-05-12 Richard Pérez-Peña (@perezpena), National Desk A Madison, Wis., police officer who killed an unarmed black man in March, in one of a spate of similar incidents that have set off protests around the country, will not face criminal charges,…
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New Bill Would Let New Yorkers Identify As Multiracial On Official City Forms The Huffington Post 2015-05-12 Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias), New York Reporter New York City has the largest population in the United States of people who identify as multiracial. Even its mayor, Bill de Blasio, and its first lady, Chirlane McCray, have two multiracial…
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DNA survey finds all humans are 99.9pc the same The Telegraph 2002-12-20 Roger Highfield, Science Editor Whether you hail from Surbiton, Ulan Bator or Nairobi, your genetic make-up is strikingly similar to that of every other person on Earth, an analysis concludes today. Although scientists have long recognised that, despite physical differences, all human populations…
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Transatlantic Spectacles of Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse by Kimberly Snyder Manganelli (review) Callaloo Volume 38, Number 2, Spring 2015 pages 405-408 Justin Rogers-Cooper, Associate Professor of English LaGuardia Community College/City University of New York, Long Island City, New York Manganellia, Kimberly S., Transatlantic Spectacles of Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the…