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: Identity Development/Psychology
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Playing in the dark/ playing in the light: Coloured identity in the novels of Zoë Wicomb Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa Volume 20, Issue 1, 2008 pages 1-15 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2008.9678286 J. U. Jacobs, Senior Professor of English and Fellow University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Zoë Wicomb’s three fictional works—You Can’t Get Lost…
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Stuck at the border of the reserve: Self-identity and authentic identity amongst mixed race First Nations women University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada January 2010 330 pages Publication Number: AAT NR64501 ISBN: 9780494645017 Jaime Mishibinijima Miller A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of Graduate Studies of The University of Guelph by for the degree of…
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Cultural identities of people of “mixed” backgrounds: racial, ethnic and national meanings in negotiation McGill University, Montreal 2005 Sahira Iqbal A thesis submitted to McGill University in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree ofMasters of Arts in Culture and Values in Education. This qualitative study aims to describe and understand the cultural identities…
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Multiracial Identity: New Models and Frameworks for Describing and Understanding the Experience of Race and Identity National Conference on Race & Ethnicity (NCORE) 2012 New York, New York 2012-05-29 through 2012-06-02 Date & Time To Be Determined Charmaine L. Wijeyesinghe, Ed.D, Consultant in Organizational Development and Social Justice Education For two decades, research on Multiracial…
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“Transnational Crossroads” explores and triangulates for the first time the interactions and contacts among these three cultural groups that were brought together by the expanding American empire from 1867 to 1950.
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Multiracial Identity Development Arlington Public Schools Clarendon Education Center 2801 Clarendon Boulevard, Suite 308 Arlington, Virginia 2011-11-30, 10:00-12:00 EST (Local Time) Have you ever wondered about how children from multiracial backgrounds develop their racial identity? Please join us in welcoming Dr. Ricia Weiner, Ms. Eleanor Lewis, and Ms. Veronica Sanjines, School Psychologists, who will share…
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Faking It: Poetics & Hybridity: Critical Writing 1984-1999 NeWest Press Spring 2000 288 pages Paperback ISBN 13: 978-1-896300-07-8 Fred Wah According to Fred Wah, the act of thinking critically is one of exploration and discovery. In Faking It, Wah demonstrates how writing poetry is writing critically. This scrapbook of Wah’s work—collected from fifteen years of…
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ENGL 490: Multi-Ethnic and Mixed-Race Identities in Literature and Film University of British Columbia Winter 2011 Glenn Deer, Assistant Professor of English This course will examine literary and selected filmic representations of interracial and inter-ethnic identities, mixed-race relationships and intermarriage, and bicultural communities in comparative national and international contexts. We shall be especially concerned with…
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ENGL 487: The Mulatto in American Fiction Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio Fall 2004 Jené Schoenfeld, Assistant Professor of English The mulatto balances precariously on the razor-thin edge of the color line between black and white. In the antebellum era, the mulatto’s proximity to whiteness made the mulatto an attractive object for Abolitionist sympathy. In the…