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: Live Events
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Allyson Hobbs: A Chosen Exile Miami University Room 1 Upham Hall 100 Bishop Circle Oxford, Ohio 45056 Thursday, 2016-02-25, 17:00 EST (Local Time) The E.E. McClellan Lecture in History Allyson Hobbs is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Stanford University. Her book A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life,…
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9 Benefits of Being in an Intercultural Marriage Masala Mommas: An Online Magazine for Today’s Moms with a South Asian Connection 2016-02-17 Alexandra Madhavan My husband is from South India and I am Canadian. We are the living, walking, breathing epitome of cultural differences – he is Hindu, I am Catholic; he is a strict…
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How and why did they do it? Harriet Beecher Stowe House 2950 Gilbert Avenue Cincinnati, Ohio 45206 Sunday, 2016-02-28, 13:00 EST (Local Time) Between the the 18th and mid-20th centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and communities. Allyson Hobbs, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of History, Stanford University, will…
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What Matters to Me & Why – Allyson Hobbs Stanford University Common Room Center for Inter-Religious Community Learning and Experiences (CIRCLE) at Old Union, 3rd Floor Stanford, California Wednesday, 2016-02-17, 12:00 PST (Local Time) Allyson Hobbs Sponsored by: Office for Religious Life The purpose of What Matters to Me and Why is to encourage reflection…
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One Drop of Love: Presented by Mesa Arts Center as part of the Performing Live Series Mesa Arts Center Nesbitt/Elliott Playhouse One East Main Street Mesa, Arizona 85201 Telephone: 480.644.6500 Friday, 2016-02-05, 19:30 MST (Local Time) Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni How does our belief in ‘race’ affect our most intimate relationships? One Drop of Love travels…
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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life (Race & Difference Colloquium Series) Emory University Robert W. Woodruff Library, Jones Room 540 Asbury Circle Atlanta, Georgia 30322 Monday, 2016-02-15, 12:00-13:30 EST (Local Time) Presented by: James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History…
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Jeff Chang in conversation with Adam Mansbach Kepler’s Books 1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park, California 94025-4349 Tuesday, 2015-01-26, 19:30 PST (Local Time) It’s hard to express just how cool and important Who We Be is with words alone. Jeff seems to share this sentiment when it comes to a cultural history of the idea…
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What’s the Difference with “Difference”? University of Washington Kane Hall, Room 120 4069 Spokane Lane Seattle, Washington 98105 2016-01-14, 19:30 PST (Local Time) Ralina L. Joseph, Associate Professor Department of Communication (also adjunct associate professor in the Departments of American Ethnic Studies and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies) University of Washington Language is power. The…
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Book Talk – A Chosen Exile: The History of Racial Passing National Civil Rights Museum: At the Lorraine Motel 450 Mulberry Street Memphis, Tennesee 38103 2015-12-17, 18:00-20:00 CST (Local Time) Allyson Hobbs, a professor of History at Stanford University, has written a remarkable book entitled [A] Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in America.…