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
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- 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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Given evidence of BiDil’s efficacy, but little evidence that race mattered to its efficacy, the FDA should have made one of two decisions: reject the request for race-specific approval or approve BiDil for all heart failure patients, regardless of race. Instead, the FDA put race at the center of its decision, sparking controversy and paving…
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An Inconvenient Truth: “Hispanic” is an ethnic origin, not a “race” National Institute for Latino Policy, Inc. 2013-08-24 Nancy López, Guest Commentator and Associate Professor of Sociology University of New Mexico Kenneth Prewitt’s provocative August 21st New York Times commentary calls us to “fix the census archaic racial categories.” He contends that the current national…
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Never-Ending Story The New York Times 2013-09-27 A. O. Scott, Chief Film Critic ‘Conversation About Race’ Has Not Brought Cultural Consensus The “conversation about race” that public figures periodically claim to desire, the one that is always either about to happen or is being prevented from happening, has been going on, at full volume, at…
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The Era of Black Indian Transcendance Refixico 2013-09-29 Phil Wilkes Fixico, Seminole Maroon Descendant, California Seminole Mico (Nation of One) and Heniha for the Wildcat/John Horse Band of the Seminoles of Texas and Old Mexico I was a 52 yr. old African-American, when I discovered that I was really an African-Native American. This epiphany took…
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“Makin a way Outta no way:” The dangerous business of racial masquerade in Nella Larsen’s Passing Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory Volume 15, Issue 1 (2005) pages 79-104 DOI: 10.1080/07407700508571489 Carlyle Van Thompson, Acting Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Education Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York Early in…
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Art Review: In the New World, Trappings of a New Social Order The New York Times 2013-09-19 Karen Rosenberg ‘Behind Closed Doors’ Regards Spanish Colonial Art “Behind Closed Doors: Art in the Spanish American Home, 1492-1898,” at the Brooklyn Museum, leaves us in the strange position of marveling at the opulence of domestic life in…
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Northwestern sophomores form group for mixed race students The Daily Northwestern Evanston, Illinois 2013-09-26 Julian Gerez (@JGerez_news), Reporter One year ago, Medill sophomore Kalina Silverman, a half-Chinese, half-White, Jewish student browsed through the bustling activities fair. Amid the numerous student cultural groups, Silverman couldn’t find a home. “I went to a couple events hosted by…
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Government forms limit mixed race people Daily Trojan University of Southern California 2013-09-26 Ida Abhari According to The New York Times, the current generation of college students is the largest group of mixed race people in America so far. The number of individuals who identified as mixed race is at 9 million. Increasingly more Americans…
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Discrimination Down to a Science Hyphen Magazine Issue 26, Spring 2013 (The South) Dharushana Muthulingam, Health Editor and a resident physician at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland How genetic data shapes science and medicine and what is being done to change it. In the 1997 science fiction movie Gattaca, set in a future of genetically engineered…