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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Category: Articles
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Behind 2016’s Turmoil, a Crisis of White Identity The Interpreter The New York Times 2016-11-01 Amanda Taub Call it the crisis of whiteness. White anxiety has fueled this year’s political tumult in the West: Britain’s surprising vote to exit the European Union, Donald J. Trump’s unexpected capture of the Republican presidential nomination in the United…
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‘The Sympathizer,’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen Book Review The New York Times 2015-04-02 Philip Caputo The more powerful a country is, the more disposed its people will be to see it as the lead actor in the sometimes farcical, often tragic pageant of history. So it is that we, citizens of a superpower, have viewed…
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Collecting: My special focus on Louisiana’s Free People of Color. Louisiana Historic and Cultural Vistas 2016-10-31 Jeremy K. Simien It’s been said that collecting is a sickness and that a great collector will never stop collecting. I don’t know why, but I’ve always collected things. It started with fossilized rocks on the gravel playground at…
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How do you become “white” in America? The Correspondent September 2016 Sarah Kendzior, Flyover Country Correspondent An immigrant family looks out over the New York skyline as they arrive in the U.S. from Germany aboard the S.S. Nieuw Amsterdam. Photo by Getty Trump has retweeted white supremacist groups and has the backing of the Ku…
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What Loving Can Show Us About Multiracial Parenting TIME 2016-10-31 Lise Ragbir, Public Voices Fellow and Director of the Warfield Center Gallery University of Texas, Austin Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton in Loving. (Focus Features) ‘Let’s stop assuming all families are one color’ America has come a long way since Mildred and Richard Loving took…
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October 29, 1949 Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African-American Newspapers 2016-10-29 Matthew F. Delmont, Professor of History Arizona State University On October 29, 1949, the Chicago Defender published Walter White’s review of Elia Kazan’s film Pinky. The film, a drama about racial passing starring Jeanne Crain and Ethel Waters, was the top-grossing film of 1949.…
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The Life and Times of Pío Pico, Last Governor of Mexican California Lost LA KCET Burbank, California 2016-10-27 William D. Estrada, Curator of California and American History and Chair of the History Department Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Pío de Jesus Pico and his wife, María Ignacia Alvarado Pico, in 1852, with two…