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
- 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: Biography
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The double life of Injun Joe Maclean’s 1956-07-21 Dorothy Sangster [Katz] (1913-2011) The tourists at Algonquin Park think they’re meeting a real live redskin in a tribal tepee. Indian schmindian! He’s Tex Boyden, who reads the New Yorker, sips Martinis and makes his living selling beads to the white natives When Erl Boyden was five…
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Meet the black Americans going home to China Cable News Network (CNN) 2016-12-27 Yazhou Sun, Producer CNN International Paula Madison grew up knowing she was different. Born in the predominantly African-American neighborhood of Harlem, New York, she was raised by a single mother who looked Chinese. “When my mother opened the door and told me…
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On the Record: Georgetown and the racial identity of President Patrick Healy The Georgetown Voice 2010-04-14 Patrick Healy Matt Sheptuck (COL ’10) is an American Studies major writing his senior thesis, which explores how Georgetown University has perceived Jesuit Father Patrick Healy’s racial identity over the years. In his research Sheptuck found that Healy, whom…
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China Machado, Breakthrough Model Until the End, Dies at 86 The New York Times On The Runway 2016-12-19 Vanessa Friedman China Machado, the first non-Caucasian to appear in the pages of an American glossy fashion magazine and a model who broke not only the race barrier but also the age barrier, died on Sunday in…