Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- 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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Category: Articles
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I’ve spent thousands of dollars trying to turn my hair into anything but what it is: black and curly
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Being biracial in America, for me, is being able to see things from two entirely different perspectives.
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The author of “Superior: The Return of Race Science” knows this from firsthand experience
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Charting parallels between childhood and motherhood by Lou Mensah.
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The uneasy existence of being black and passing for white.
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Homosexuality of nine-year-old begins to flourish as he contends with his dysfunctional household, in lyrical drama based on eponymous novel – in cinemas and also on VoD
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Mixed Race-Politics and Homi Bhabha’s Third Space Theory in Charles Chesnutt’s “The Wife of His Youth” and “The Sheriff’s Children” The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English Volume 20, Issue 1 (2018) Article 6 (pages 37-50) Gabrielle Sanford Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia Tru Leverette,…
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It’s been awhile since I’ve shared the books that I read while writing “Half-Truths.” Here are two more books that have helped me understand one of my characters, Lillian Harris.