Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- 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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Moogega Cooper: The JPL’s Space Engineer LA Weekly Los Angeles, California 2014-05-14 Sophia Kercher Somewhere on Mars, the initials of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, J-P-L, are written in Morse code spanning hundreds of meters across the red planet. It’s this kind of detail that thrills JPL scientist Moogega Cooper – especially since JPL, considered NASA’s…
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The Surprising Story of Walter White and the NAACP Time 2015-07-01 Jennifer Latson July 1, 1893: Walter Francis White, head of the NAACP for more than 20 years, is born In the last few weeks, Rachel Dolezal—the Spokane, Wash., NAACP leader who recently left her post after being outed as white though saying that she…
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Walter White, 61, Dies in Home Here The New York Times 1955-03-22 Walter White, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, died last night of a heart attack at his home at his home, 242 East Sixty-eighth Street. He was 61 years old. Last October he twice entered the New…
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First African-American woman novelist revisited Harvard University Gazette Cambridge, Massachusetts 2005-03-24 Ken Gewertz, Harvard News Office Harriet Wilson was a survivor. Now we have proof. Wilson wrote “Our Nig; or Sketches From the Life of A Free Black,” the earliest known novel by an African-American woman. It tells the story of Frado, a young biracial…
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Meet this year’s outstanding contributors at The Globies! The Seattle Globalist 2015-07-17 Christina Twu, Editor/Contributor The Seattle Globalist is proud to recognize three brilliant Globalist writers that have made outstanding contributions to our publication this year, helping to grow our coverage and make 2015 a phenomenal year for us. Please join us in recognizing these…
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5 black Chicagoans who passed for white The Chicago Sun-Times 2015-06-16 Kim Janssen, Staff Reporter A baseball player who broke baseball’s color line decades before Jackie Robinson was born. A pioneering politician who has a West Side school named after him. An Emmy-winning “blonde bombshell.” A poet at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance. And…
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Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015-03-31 48 pages Hardcover ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780544102293 eBook ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780544102286 Margarita Engle Rafael López In this picture book bursting with vibrance and rhythm, a girl dreams of playing the drums in 1930s Cuba, when the music-filled island had a taboo against female…
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Joseph Emidy: From slave fiddler to classical violinist BBC News 2015-06-21 Miles Davis, BBC News Online Joseph Emidy led the Truro Philharmonic Orchestra The remarkable life of a former slave who became a pioneer of classical music has been commemorated. The “genius” violinist Joseph Emidy, from West Africa, was enslaved for two long periods of…
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The Trouble with Virginia Michele Beller: writing the mixed-race experience of America, from Buckingham County, Virginia, to Dominica, West Indies, and beyond 2014-11-21 Michele Beller Finally. My book project is coming to life. My dream of writing is here. As I learn new things or have something interesting to share, I promise you, I’ll post…