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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Malia Bouattia’s election as NUS president proves deeply divisive The Guardian 2016-04-22 Jessica Elgot At the NUS conference, Bouattia won on the first round. Photograph: NUS/PA Jewish student groups alarmed by her election, but the first black Muslim woman in the role has nerves of steel, and young activists love her for that It is…
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Toward a critical multiracial theory in education International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education Volume 29, Issue 6, 2016 pages 795-813 DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2016.1162870 Jessica C. Harris, Multi-Term Lecturer Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies University of Kansas This manuscript lays the foundation for a critical multiracial theory (MultiCrit) in education. The author uses extant…
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Ep 10 – Thriving as a Social Media Activist Black Women Who Lead 2015-11-29 Marsha Philitas, Host Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow & Visiting Scholar Department of Physics; MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics Massachusetts Institute of Technology In this episode, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, the 63rd Black American woman to earn a…
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From multiracial children to gender identity, what some demographers are studying now Pew Research Center 2016-04-08 D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer/Editor The nation’s largest annual demography conference, held in Washington, D.C., last week, featured new research on topics including couples who live in separate homes, children of multiracial couples, transgender Americans, immigration law enforcement and how…
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This is not a joke, but it starts like one: two men walk into an office. They have come to pitch an idea to a Hollywood mogul, an idea for a blockbuster movie. Sort of. Their idea is a docu-drama on George Washington Carver.
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Ninety years ago, writer Carl Van Vechten published a novel intended to be a celebration of Harlem, which at the time was experiencing a budding literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that sparked a new cultural identity for Black America.