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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Reading The Human Stain through Charles W. Chesnutt: The Genre of the Passing Novel Philip Roth Studies Volume 2, Number 2 (Fall 2006) pages 138-150 DOI: 10.1353/prs.2011.0066 Matthew Wilson, Professor of English and Humanities Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg This article historicizes The Human Stain, placing it in the genre of the passing novel. The analysis…
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Race Poem via Poetry Foundation from: Antebellum Dream Book Graywolf Press 2001 72 pages Paperback ISBN: 1-55597-354-X Elizabeth Alexander, President The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York, New York Sometimes I think about Great-Uncle Paul who left Tuskegee, Alabama to become a forester in Oregon and in so doing became fundamentally white for the rest…
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Hopes Spring Eternal: ‘Three Strong Women,’ by Marie NDiaye The New York Times 2012-08-10 Fernanda Eberstadt Americans have a curiously limited vision of France. We may be wild about Chanel sunglasses, Vuitton handbags, Champagne or Paris in the spring, but when it comes to the kinds of contemporary French culture that can’t be bought in…
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UCSB Ph.D. Alum Overcomes Odds and Pays Back With History Grad Parent Award UCSB GradPost University of California, Santa Barbara 2012-07-20 Patricia Marroquin, Guest Editor-in-Chief Dr. Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly believes strongly in paying back and paying forward. When she was a History Ph.D. student at UCSB just a few years ago, “graduate school was quite difficult…
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Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival 2012 Multicultural Familia: Educating & Empowering Modern Familes 2012-07-27 Glenn Robinson Two-thousand twelve was another fun and inspirational Mixed Roots festival in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. Highlights from the movies and readings that I attended: Friday evening was the beautiful and inspirational movie The Loving Story……
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Rosario Dawson and the Ambiguous Blackness of Latinidad antenna 2012-08-05 Keara Goin As has become abundantly clear to me over the course of my research, in the context of contemporary popular U.S. racial discourse, one is either Latina/o or Black, not both. Moreover, we see this phenomenon replicated in U.S. cinema, where characters played by…
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Who Gets To Decide Who Is Native American? Tell Me More National Public Radio 2012-08-09 Michel Martin, Host Rob Capriccioso, Washington Bureau Chief Indian Country Today Media Network Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan A controversy about identity has erupted in the race for…
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Census to Change Categories on Race The Associated Press 2012-08-09 The Census Bureau wants to make broad changes to its surveys to keep pace with changing notions of race. The changes would drop use of the term “Negro,” leaving a choice of “black” or “African-American.” It would count Hispanics as separate from blacks and whites.…