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
- Loving Across Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health Conference
- 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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Good riddance to RU’s Powell Hall The Roanoke Times Roanoke, Virginia 2010-09-21 Christina Nuckols, Editorial Page Editor One can, if optimistically predisposed to believe in the inherent honesty and good-natured character of people, accept the story of why Radford University’s arts and music building still bore the name of John Powell until last week. One…
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That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia [Smithers Review] Journal of American History Volume 103, Issue 3, December 2016 pages 742-743 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jaw364 That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia By Arica L.…
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THE CREATION OF The Intercept, and then the Intercept Brasil, was motivated by a core purpose: to provide crucial journalism and commentary that, for whatever reasons, is not being adequately provided to the public. We are especially thrilled to announce the arrival of Ana Maria Gonçalves as our new columnist because her work so powerfully…
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Look: Co-Parenting Mixed-Race Kids Requires More Than Racial Tolerance Black Entertainment Television (BET) 2016-12-15 Ashley Simpo What happens when fetishizing Black bodies results in having to raise one? An interview with Nick Harris. It’s far from unique to see an interracial couple these days. The millennial generation is the most racially mixed to date and the…
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When Labels Don’t Matter: George Herriman and Krazy Kat The Beat 2016-12-14 Heidi MacDonald, Editor-In-Chief We’ve been writing a bit about Michael Tisserand’s comprehensive new biography of George Herriman, Krazy: A Life in Black and White, but last night I got to hear him talk about it at one of the stops on his mini…
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The people running the media are the problem Nieman Lab 2016-12-13 Matt Waite, Founder, Drone Journalism Lab; Professor of Journalism University of Nebraska This month, I spent a week surrounded by bright, well-meaning journalism and tech thinkers. Session after session, day after day, conversations kept coming back to these questions: How do we restore trust…
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On 5 June 1934, about a year and half after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of the Reich, the leading lawyers of Nazi Germany gathered at a meeting to plan what would become the Nuremberg Laws, the centrepiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi race regime. The meeting was an important one, and a stenographer was present…
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A Second Look: “A Year of Dreams” by Sarah A. Chavez The Fourth River 2014-11-12 Kylie Walnoha, Assistant Poetry Editor “From Waking to Dreaming” –by Kylie Walnoha, The Fourth River Staff The rarity of being on the end of publishing that involves making decisions for the journal has been a unique as well as a…
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Pharmacogenomics, human genetic diversity and the incorporation and rejection of color/race in Brazil BioSocieties March 2015, Volume 10, Issue 1 pages 48–69 DOI: 10.1057/biosoc.2014.21 Ricardo Ventura Santos Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública/ FIOCRUZ & Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Gláucia Oliveira da Silva Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil Sahra Gibbon, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow University…