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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How this theoretical physicist is advocating for women of colour in STEM tvo Toronto, Canada 2019-07-11 Carla Lucchetta Nam Kiwanuka interviews theoretical physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Chanda Prescod-Weinstein talks to The Agenda in the Summer about her identity as a queer Black woman, the importance of mentorship, and why advocacy is a vital component of her…
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In 2001, on my first trip to Brazil, I yearned to find a refuge, a place where my background as a mixed-race black woman from the United States was neither exotic nor fetishized. Relying on Brazil’s reputed celebration of racial mixing, I believed that it would become my racial paradise in which brown was beautiful…
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Allyson Hobbs distinctly remembers the first time she saw Stanford University. After flying out from Chicago for a final interview in January 2008, she was chatting with a faculty member as they arrived on campus. “We were talking about Ohio State foot-ball and we turned down Palm Drive,” she recalls. “All of a sudden, my…
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Contractors with white ancestry were awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts reserved for minorities by making unsubstantiated claims to being Native American, a Times investigation found. To qualify for the minority contracting programs, they used membership in unrecognized Cherokee groups that federally recognized tribes and Native American experts consider illegitimate
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It sounds like an average “poor little rich girl” story. But Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls is much more than that, taking tropes and rendering them with an undying sense of compassion.
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Kamala Harris, Birtherism, Race and the Unscrupulous, Sinister Antics of the Far Right! Medium 2019-07-04 Elwood Watson, Professor of History, African American Studies and Gender Studies East Tennessee State University Now that she has emerged as a serious contender for the 2020 democratic nomination for president, Kamala Harris has come under attack from a number…
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Dante de Blasio, whose giant Afro was featured in his father’s bid for New York City mayor, is playing a role in his presidential campaign.
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Birtherism raises its ugly head, only to be lopped off by Harris supporters and rivals