Mixed Race Studies

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Category: Live Events

  • Maija DiGiorgio’s IncogNEGRO, My-a Life The Musical

    This ethnically ambiguous comedian shares the faux pas and mishaps in her lifelong journey of mistaken identity. Do not miss this hilarious show with Maija DiGiorgio.

  • Multiracials and Civil Rights – Book Talk with Professor Tanya Katerí Hernández

    A Lunchtime Talk hosted by the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law and the Center for the Study of Law and Culture

  • Legacies of Postwar Japan’s “War Bride” Era

    This symposium brings together various stakeholders to tell the stories of the war brides and their children. By focusing on the memories, realities, and legacies of this community, this groundbreaking gathering will create opportunities for listening, discussing, healing, and empowering attendees.

  • The Family Resemblance

    This semiautobiographical musical centers on three generations of one cross-cultural family—a white mother, black father, two mixed race daughters, and the spirit of an African grandmother.

  • Melissa Harris-Perry in Conversation with Allyson Hobbs

    Join us for an evening of conversation with Melissa Harris-Perry, Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University, founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Center, Editor-at-Large, Elle.com and Author of Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America, in conversation with Allyson Hobbs, Associate Professor of History and Director of African and African…

  • All Mixed Up: Our Changing Racial Identities Film Screening

    World Premiere of the film project All Mixed Up: Our Changing Racial Identities. AMU is a short film that examines the experience of multiracial Americans and their families through a series of interviews.

  • Transnational Perspectives on Black Germany

    The Black German Heritage and Research Association (BGHRA) is collaborating with the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures and the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto in hosting the 3-day SSHRC-funded conference, “Transnational Perspectives on Black Germany” in Toronto, Ontario, on May 23-25, 2018.

  • Interracial Intimacies Symposium

    Please join us for a two-day symposium examining the history of interracial intimacies in comparative and transnational perspective. This symposium offers emerging and established scholars an opportunity to come together to discuss issues of interracial intimacies broadly construed.

  • Mixie and the Halfbreeds

    In “Mixie and the Halfbreeds,” two estranged neighbors are not as different as they think. Haunted by peroxide teeth and blondissima hair, Mixie and Trixie tackle a question that has plagued mankind through the ages: do blondes really have more fun?

  • Book Talk: The Politics of Blackness: Racial Identity and Political Behavior in Contemporary Brazil

    The book, “The Politics of Blackness: Racial Identity and Political Behavior in Contemporary Brazil” uses an intersectional approach to analyze the impact of the experience of race on Afro-Brazilian political behavior in the cities of Salvador, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro.