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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Inspired By — A Q&A With Actor-Writer-Producer Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni Goldstar Pulse 2016-05-27 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni is creator and star of One Drop of Love, a solo show co-produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. She’s a spokesperson on the arts and racial identity, a board member of Mixed Roots Stories, and…
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Knowledge Session: Who Was Lena Horne? I Am Hip-Hop 2015-07-07 Rishma Dhaliwal Lena Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was born in Brooklyn, New York, on June 30, 1917. Her father, Edwin “Teddy” Horne, who worked in the gambling trade, left the family when Lena was three. Her mother, Edna, was an actress…
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Charles Chesnutt Racial Relation Progression Throughout Career Cleveland State University May 2011 60 pages Lindy R. Birney Submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree Master of English Charles Chesnutt began his career with an ideology that race should not be a category in which to judge others. He felt that through literature he…
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Jump at de Sun The Nation 2003-01-30 Kristal Brent Zook Anthropologist, novelist, folklorist, essayist and luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston dazzled her peers and patrons almost immediately upon her arrival in New York City in 1925, when she made a show-stopping grand entrance at a formal literary affair, flinging a red scarf…
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A Refugee from His Race: Albion W. Tourgée and His Fight against White Supremacy University of North Carolina Press 2016-05-02 464 pages 9 halftones, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2795-3 Carolyn L. Karcher During one of the darkest periods of U.S. history, when white supremacy was entrenching itself throughout the nation, the…
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The Man Who Stole Himself: The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan University of Chicago Press 2016 264 pages 8 color plates, 49 halftones 6 x 9 Gísli Pálsson, Professor of Anthropology University of Iceland The island nation of Iceland is known for many things—majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood—but racial diversity is not one of…
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22nd Annual David Noble Lecture featuring Robin D.G. Kelley Best Buy Theater Northrop Auditorium 84 Church Street, SE Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 Tuesday, 2016-04-26, 19:00 CDT (Local Time) Robin D.G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor of History & Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History University of California, Los Angeles The 22nd Annual David Noble Lecture…
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New Generation Thinkers: The Moor of Florence – A Medici Mystery Free Thinking BBC Radio 3 2015-11-09 2015 Festival, The Free Thinking Essay For over 400 years it’s been claimed that the first Medici Duke of Florence was mixed race, his mother a slave of African descent. Catherine Fletcher of Swansea University asks if this…