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: Texas
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At age 3, Shane McCrae was taken from his Black father by his white grandparents — a rupture he explores in a new memoir.
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An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents.
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Latinx Files: When Mexicans became ‘White’-ish The Los Angeles Times 2022-05-12 Fidel Martinez “We didn’t receive the rights of white people, only the illusion.” (Martina Ibáñez-Baldor / Los Angeles Times; Getty Images) Hi folks, Fidel here. Every once in a while, I’ll ask a guest writer to take over the main story. We’ve experimented with…
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All mixed up: Multiracial students at CVHS say they don’t fit in one box The Upstream: The Student-Run News Site of Carnegie Vanguard High School Houston, Texas 2022-02-02 Sofia Hegstrom, Contributing Writer Noah Mohamed, Staff Writer Senior Xen Villareal identifies as mixed-race indigenous and is one-quarter Black. Photo courtesy of Xen Villareal My eyebrows furrowed…
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UT students, staff reflect on experiences with racial passing The Daily Texan: Serving the University of Texas at Austin Community Since 1900 2021-12-05 Sofia Treviño, Life & Arts Senior Reporter Julius Shieh/The Daily Texan Disliking her paler skin compared to other darker-complected Hispanics growing up, Rachel González-Martin spent hours lying under the sun willing herself…
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“We Are Owed.” is the debut poetry collection of Ariana Brown, exploring Black relationality in Mexican and Mexican American spaces.
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Silvia Hector Webber played a foundational role in leading freedom seekers to safe havens by ferrying them away from US bondage to freedom destinations in Mexico.2
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Descendants of slaves who escaped across the southern border observe Texas’s emancipation holiday with their own unique traditions.