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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Long Time Passing Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2009-01-23 Amy Finnerty Baz Dreisinger, Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008). How black is Eminem? How white is our president? We can’t help asking these awkward questions as we digest “Near Black,” by Baz Dreisinger. A freelance journalist…
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‘Ladivine,’ by Marie NDiaye Book Review The New York Times 2016-05-05 Patrick McGrath LADIVINE By Marie NDiaye Translated by Jordan Stump 276 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $26.95. Marie NDiaye is the author of more than a dozen plays and works of fiction. Currently living in Berlin, having left France in 2009, by her own account…
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Jump at de Sun The Nation 2003-01-30 Kristal Brent Zook Anthropologist, novelist, folklorist, essayist and luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston dazzled her peers and patrons almost immediately upon her arrival in New York City in 1925, when she made a show-stopping grand entrance at a formal literary affair, flinging a red scarf…
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The “Highly Important Matter of Clothes”: Apparel and Identity in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand Fringe: The Noun That Verbs Your World Issue 19, Summer 2009 (2009-07-19) Kaley Joyes Nella Larsen’s novel Quicksand (1928) is saturated with clothing. This essay examines the ways in which Larsen uses fashionable apparel to map connections between racial identity and aesthetic…
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Jewish/Afro-Caribbean artist, performer and playwright Sarah Waisvisz, 34, will be presenting her one-woman show, Monstrous, which explores the often ignored mixed race identity based on her own personal experiences, and her work on her PhD thesis research about Francophone/Anglophone literature specifically by Afro/Caribbean women
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Coloring Outside The Lines With Interracial Marriage The Stony Brook Independent Stony Brook, New York 2016-05-02 Kayla Frazier, Staff Writer For Stony Brook student Shage Price, being the daughter of parents of different races led her to have questions about her looks early on. “I would always ask my mother why she married daddy and…