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: Interviews
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Interview with Michael Tisserand about his book “Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White.”
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The founder of Britain’s first BME orchestra sat down with [Features Writer] David Ellis to talk classical music, prejudice in the industry and the Southbank Festival
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LA Times columnist Patt Morrison sits down with Rachel Dolezal to discuss race and identity.
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There is nothing like Formula One in terms of global popularity, glamour and speed. The racing series is considered the pinnacle of motor sports. Most Americans haven’t heard of its biggest star — his name is Lewis Hamilton. Even if car races aren’t your thing, there’s still much to admire in Hamilton’s inspiring story of…
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Rachel Dolezal: ‘I’m not going to stoop and apologise and grovel’ The Guardian 2017-02-25 Decca Aitkenhead Two years ago, she was a respected black rights activist and teacher. Then she was exposed as a white woman who had deceived almost everyone she knew. Why did she do it? Spokane is a modest town of wide…
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Minelle speaks with Canada’s current Parliamentary Poet Laureate George Elliot Clarke and poet and PhD student Adebe DeRango-Adem about the mentor-mentee relationship.
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Minelle speaks with Room magazine’s managing editor, Chelene Knight, about the local magazine and its volunteer collective.
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Throughout my month here at open-book.ca I’ve been sharing my conversations with various members of the literary community. Our last conversation is with noted poet, Adebe DeRango-Adem. To learn more about her current collection, Terra Incognita please visit here or her Facebook page.
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I heard of Adrienne Dawes when a show that talked about Mexican identity called Casta came on my radar. I knew that I had to connect with her. She is a boss writer and the head of a production company called Heckle Her. She is the mastermind behind dope shows like Doper than Dope, Am…