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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Category: Biography
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In a surreal desert landscape, a tiny white mouse throws a brick at the head of a black cat. On impact, the cat lifts lightly off the ground, hearts floating in the air above its lovestruck head.
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To celebrate Black History Month we profile the Hudson Bay Company’s Sir James Douglas
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Among the events that helped to crystallize what would come to be known as the Harlem Renaissance was a dinner, in March, 1924, at the Civic Club, on West 12th Street. The idea for the dinner was initially hatched by Charles Spurgeon Johnson, the editor of Opportunity, a journal published by the National Urban League…
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Not many private relationships in history have received as much press attention in recent years as that between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings. First alleged in 1802 by the journalist James Callender, who based his account on stories that had been current in Virginia for some years, the affair has since then been…
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Lt. Stephen Atkins Swails Kingstree News Kingstree, South Carolina 2017-02-07 Cassandra Williams Rush, Special to The News Lt. Stephen Atkins Swails Photo by Ronald Walton Lt. Stephen Atkins Swails, an attorney, a member of the Electoral College, a member of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, was the Mayor of Kingstree. He was born February 23, 1832…
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Duncan McDonald: Flathead Indian Reservation Leader and Cultural Broker, 1849-1937 University of Nebraska Press 2016-03-31 256 pages 28 illustrations, 6 maps, index Paperback ISBN: 978-1-934594-15-5 Robert Bigart, Librarian Emeritus Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana Joseph McDonald, President Emeritus (and grandnephew of Duncan McDonald) Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana Duncan McDonald (1849–1937) led a remarkable life…
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‘Hidden’ no more: Katherine Johnson, a black NASA pioneer, finds acclaim at 98 The Washington Post 2017-01-27 Victoria St. Martin Fame has finally found Katherine Johnson — and it only took a half-century, six manned moon landings, a best-selling book and an Oscar-nominated movie. For more than 30 years, Johnson worked as a NASA mathematician…
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Iconic Fine Arts Sculptor Edmonia Lewis Honored In Google Doodle The Huffington Post 2017-02-01 Zahara Hill, Black Voices Editorial Fellow Sophie Diao The artist’s dedication to portraying her African-American and Native-American ancestry separated her from other sculptors. Black History Month began with the art of this lesser-known black icon. In honor of the start of…
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One of the Coast Guard’s great heroes and the secret he kept hidden