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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An Open Letter to the White Fathers of Black Daughters bluestockings magazine 2015-02-23 Kelsey Henry I have been drafting this letter since I was ten. I am twenty and tonight is the first night I will write these words outside of me. I don’t know what they will look like here. Honestly, I am scared…
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Is it still Interracial dating when you’re mixed? Fusion 2015-02-19 Simone Jacobson Washington, D.C. No matter where I live or whom I date, I will always be out of context. Here’s how it all began: My mother and my maternal grandparents were born in Burma. My grandpa’s father was Chinese and my grandma’s father was…
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Memories of Metis Women of Saint-Eustache, Manitoba — (1910-1980) Oral History Forum/Forum d’histoire orale Volumes 19-20 (1999-2000) pages 90-111 Nicole St-Onge, Professor of History University of Ottawa Introductory Comments In an article entitled “Hired Men: Ontario Agricultural Wage Labour in Historical Perspective” Joy Parr wrote the following, telling, words: Scholars too have claimed that from the…
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Association of Mixed Students hosts celebratory ‘Loving Week’ Student Life: the independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis since 1878 Volume 136, Number 38 (Thursday, 2015-02-12) Page 3 Noa Yadidi, Staff Reporter Featuring speed dating, free cupcakes and a co-programmed dance, this year’s Loving Week, hosted by the Association of Mixed Students, kicked off…
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Brother from Another Mother The New Yorker 2015-02-23 Zadie Smith Key and Peele’s chameleon comedy. The wigs on “Key and Peele” are the hardest-working hairpieces in show business. Individually made, using pots of hair clearly labelled—“Short Black/Brown, Human,” “Long Black, Human”—they are destined for the heads of a dazzling array of characters: old white sportscasters…