Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- Mixed Roots: Writers on Multiracial Identity and Both/And Belonging
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- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
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Category: Articles
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A fascinating new podcast delves into the life of Harry Pace, forgotten founder of the first black-owned major record label in the US – and unlocks a shocking and prescient story about race
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At times, my identity feels like an MC Escher lithograph, a thing that cannot be logically coherent as a whole.
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Marvin Jones, Chowan Discovery Group executive director, has made it his life’s work to document the history of a northeastern North Carolina community of color.
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Because family history is inevitably colonial history, I am invested in what and who is left out of the family album and outside of colonial history. Of particular (and selfish) interest to me is the impossibility of subjects of African and Chinese heritage.
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But when she received her middle school yearbook just days after graduating, she was shocked to see her picture had been edited. Nishida’s hair was painted black, a thick slab coated over her locks. For the first time, she felt someone was telling her she looked wrong.
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Hundreds of thousands, according to a new study of Census data. Doing so provided some economic benefits but came at a great personal cost.