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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Category: Biography
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Secrets and Lies Ms. Magazine blog Ms. Magazine 2016-05-17 Gail Lukasik The following is an excerpt from White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Identity. In 1995 when I discovered my mother’s black heritage, she made me promise never to tell her secret until she died. I kept her secret for 17…
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Review: “Krazy” by Michael Tisserand Know Louisiana: The Digital Encyclopedia of Louisiana and Home of Louisiana Cultural Vistas 2016-12-02 (Winter 2016) Lydia Nichols There is nothing more American than passing, the act of projecting a racial identity other than that assigned. At no other time and place in American history have necessity and opportunity so…
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Krazy racial rules: New biography of cartoonist George Herriman The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana 2016-11-25 Doug MacCash, Arts and Entertainment Writer New Orleans-born Krazy Kat cartoonist George Herriman (Photo by Will Connell, courtesy Michael Tisserand) “Krazy: A Life in Black and White,” the biography of Crescent City-born newspaper cartoonist extraordinaire George Herriman (1880-1944) is an…
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The first time I saw Michael Tisserand, he was walking up my doorstep, holding what appeared to be a red brick by his head, almost — but not quite– in a throwing pose. Turns out the red brick was the recently released Library of American Comics collection of “Krazy Kat” dailies for which he wrote…
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“We Were Married on the Second Day of June, and the Police Came After Us the 14th of July.” The Washingtonian 2016-11-02 Hillary Kelly, Design & Style Editor Richard and Mildred Loving. Photograph by Grey Villet. An oral history, nearly 50 years later, of the landmark Virginia case that legalized interracial marriage—and is the…
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How Trevor Noah went from biracial youth in S. Africa to leading light on U.S. TV The Washington Post 2016-11-12 Karen Heller, National Features Writer “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah has a new memoir about growing up mixed race in apartheid South Africa. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post) NEW YORK — Trump. Trump. Clinton. The Obamas…
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‘Loving’ revisits a landmark Supreme Court case with radical restraint The Washington Post 2016-11-10 Ann Hornaday, Film Critic ‘Loving’ is a quietly radical movie. A portrait of Richard and Mildred Loving, who became unwitting activists for interracial marriage when they wed in 1958, this gentle, deeply affecting story dispenses with the usual conventions of stirring appeals…
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Artist, surfer Kip Fulbeck to exhibit work at MSU Times Record News Wichita Falls, Texas 2016-11-03 Richard Carter, Special to the Times Record News Kip Fulbeck Kip Fulbeck grew up in Hawaii as the child of a Chinese mother and a white American father. In elementary school, children would come up to him and ask, “Who…